From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Updating copyright years Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:43:19 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87lipe9wy0.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <37vcoprbco.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <86lipfp1vd.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326289558 24769 80.91.229.12 (11 Jan 2012 13:45:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:45:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 11 14:45:53 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 1RkyUv-0005t7-BJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:45:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44944 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkyUu-0005Cp-GY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:45:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49459) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkyUo-0005CX-1U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:45:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkyUe-0008B8-K6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:45:42 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:48909) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkyUe-0008Aa-F1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:45:32 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RkyUb-0005ee-If for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:45:29 +0100 Original-Received: from c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net ([76.28.40.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:45:29 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:45:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pxWAPgtXLU/22ugkAmH5dfkMMoY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:147583 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80882 Archived-At: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:35:34 -0800 merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: >>>>>> "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": 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