From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Copyright years
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:30:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <857j84yxkp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uhd78471c.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:21:51 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 17:02:59 +0900
>> From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
>> Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> On 2/9/06, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> > > Yes--just add ", 2006" to each and every file's copyright notice.
>> >
>> > Why is this required? I thought the rules said to only do that
>> > for files on which we actually worked in the year 2006. Suppose
>> > there's a file that wasn't touched in years--why should we
>> > pretend that we did something there in the year 2006?
>>
>> Well by adding the ", 2006", the file has been touched -- and it's
>> 2006... :-)
>
> Right, why in the world didn't I think about it? Thanks!!
That change is not copyrightable, as it does not contain creative
content.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-09 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-05 17:35 Copyright years Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-05 18:13 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-02-06 4:58 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-09 7:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-09 8:02 ` Miles Bader
2006-02-09 20:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-09 22:30 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-02-09 23:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-02-09 10:00 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2006-02-09 20:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-10 0:05 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2006-02-10 7:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-10 10:27 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2006-02-10 23:01 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-10 23:25 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2006-02-12 4:31 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-10 23:02 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-11 10:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-10 1:13 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-10 7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-11 16:43 ` Richard M. Stallman
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