From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Updating copyright years (was Re: [gnus git] branch master updated: n0-17-447-g55c26cf =1= Add 2012 to FSF copyright years for Emacs files.) Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:45:36 +0900 Message-ID: <8739bs475r.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325900754 23202 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2012 01:45:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 01:45:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Katsumi Yamaoka Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 07 02:45:49 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RjLLx-0001NN-1e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:45:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43536 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RjLLw-0002Ds-8G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:45:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36827) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RjLLt-0002Dc-BN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:45:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RjLLs-00048P-5b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:45:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:54416) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RjLLr-000484-RG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:45:44 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id C51FB9707AB; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 10:45:36 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BE00C1A2FD1; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 10:45:36 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta31) "ginger" 2dbefd79b3d3 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147424 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80801 Archived-At: Katsumi Yamaoka writes: Hi, Katsumi! > I used to feel Emacs' way strange. Maybe updating the copyright > years of Walt Disney's works every year is nonsense. That can't be done because Walt is dead, and therefore cannot add to his works.[1] > But Emacs' way is alike to it. No, it's not. Emacs's source copyrights are updated every year because Emacs itself is different every year; but old copies of Emacs in any form do not have their copyrights updated. > What is TRT? Emacs's way. Copyright is weird, agreed, but given the way copyright works, Emacs does the right thing. Footnotes: [1] Of course, Congress regularly does something even more offensive (ie, extend the term of existing copyrights). But that's not the same as updating the copyright of an existing work.