From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Updating copyright years Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:35:34 -0800 Message-ID: <86lipfp1vd.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> References: <37vcoprbco.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326238605 1323 80.91.229.12 (10 Jan 2012 23:36:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:36:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Katsumi Yamaoka , ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29153@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jan 11 00:36:41 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RklF8-00048c-RT for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:36:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RklEN-0001ft-Ig; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:35:51 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RklEL-0001fi-UI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:35:49 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RklEK-00085g-TW for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:35:49 -0600 Original-Received: from lax-gw06.mailroute.net ([199.89.0.106] helo=mail.mroute.net) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RklEJ-0005Sb-4V for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:35:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lax-gw06.mroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66042C6F8; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:35:35 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: by MailRoute Original-Received: from red.stonehenge.com (red.stonehenge.com [208.79.95.2]) by lax-gw06.mroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73A35C6F6; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:35:34 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: by red.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 663AF1559; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:35:34 -0800 (PST) x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.19.0.14; tzolkin = 9 Ix; haab = 2 Muan In-Reply-To: <37vcoprbco.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:14:15 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (berkeley-unix) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80871 gmane.emacs.devel:147574 Archived-At: >>>>> "GM" == Glenn Morris writes: GM> Katsumi Yamaoka wrote: >> Emacs people seem to have been updating it at the beginning of >> every year regardless of having been changed or not. GM> Emacs has done it this way for several years, as documented in GM> admin/notes and as recommended in "Information for Maintainers of GNU GM> Software": That doesn't make it right, and I've gone on the record in the past arguing against it. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion