From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Help testing emacs-28.3-rc1.tar.gz on MS-Windows Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 14:40:20 +0300 Message-ID: <83bkeztie3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mt59lq8s.fsf@moondust.localdomain> <83r0ulwvhz.fsf@gnu.org> <83sf8eyk53.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1560"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 22 13:40:56 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qYPkm-0000BU-4q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:40:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qYPk9-0002Bl-Vh; Tue, 22 Aug 2023 07:40:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qYPk5-00025E-89 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2023 07:40:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qYPk0-0004ae-UY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2023 07:40:11 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=L7bH/obM8T9BZd/uV59s4koGRGG0adSRubOwXclBQZg=; b=Tg607zJGSEiZ qudvAHHQSn/htCyaoiGH/VeIjyHNCOMXekGzb+y5sPg4hnsW4QrM4bfBP08V5WP91VpOvuxqu8ZHm aeAFLSl1pvwA4NutMP6SN6cVsHxz0fY9L8rHqPqyUOYicNtsMYaCRYrh03iB0JwpV9XrCaTk8M0Uk lb3oVOuxTUqT2FcS+bLxYIJ0sr3CqQMSjFBgRKWPMus6DiSYvqbNWarvO1mUoHvg/MP9ajsYtMlQt RU8M56eqx+rZ+9L10VKIB4GUcWjHw8T48Es1FsN5cL0B45hBG/iALO8avq1eEwHR8lVr2KZrzi8Pm JyikZ1a1te+O00fyE8DTbg==; In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Mon, 21 Aug 2023 21:06:16 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:309106 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: casouri@gmail.com, stefankangas@gmail.com, njackson@posteo.net, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 21:06:16 -0400 > > > > I would be remiss to take whichwever advice is most convenient for us > > > just because it is convienient. > > > > > > But I will ask a lawyer who advises the FSF about this question. > > > Any news about this? > > No -- I was busy and let it drop. > > But we don't need to recheck the advice we got before. > We wrote down what it was and we can keep following it. I don't think I understand: are you saying you have already asked the lawyers about this and received their answers? Or that the current practice is fine and we could keep using it? If the latter, then while the current situation is definitely not a catastrophe, if we can avoid updating the copyright years every year, it would reduce the maintenance burden, the code churn, and the need to recompile everything once a year (per each branch), altogether contributing to energy savings and keeping down the emissions, which is good for the world at large. So I think it's worth our while to see if this nuisance can be avoided. TIA