From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Updating copyright years
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:43:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lipe9wy0.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86lipfp1vd.fsf@red.stonehenge.com
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:35:34 -0800 merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:
>>>>>> "GM" == Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> 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":
RLS> That doesn't make it right, and I've gone on the record in the past
RLS> arguing against it.
Doesn't the act of modifying the file to insert the new year make the
file modified and thus require the new year? Heh heh.
(No opinion one way or the other, just found that amusing.)
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-11 13:43 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <E1RilkG-0001VX-GA@quimby.gnus.org>
[not found] ` <m3fwfufjjl.fsf@stories.gnus.org>
2012-01-05 23:05 ` Updating copyright years (was Re: [gnus git] branch master updated: n0-17-447-g55c26cf =1= Add 2012 to FSF copyright years for Emacs files.) Katsumi Yamaoka
2012-01-05 23:14 ` Updating copyright years Glenn Morris
2012-01-05 23:54 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2012-01-07 0:13 ` Richard Stallman
2012-01-10 23:35 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-01-11 13:43 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2012-01-11 14:21 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-11 16:22 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-01-11 16:36 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-12 4:13 ` Richard Stallman
2012-01-12 6:52 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-01-11 19:39 ` Richard Stallman
2012-01-07 1:45 ` Updating copyright years (was Re: [gnus git] branch master updated: n0-17-447-g55c26cf =1= Add 2012 to FSF copyright years for Emacs files.) Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-01-07 4:16 ` Jason Rumney
2005-05-17 21:48 Updating copyright years Kim F. Storm
2005-05-18 13:20 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-05-18 22:44 ` Richard Stallman
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