From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding missing copyright years Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 15:46:32 -0400 Message-ID: References: <85mzraqm9k.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115322668 26310 80.91.229.2 (5 May 2005 19:51:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 19:51:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 05 21:51:03 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DTmM4-0005Lz-4s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 21:49:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DTmTd-0001se-1Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 15:57:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DTmKx-0003QD-9w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 15:48:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DTmKu-0003Nm-SE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 15:48:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DTmKt-0003KA-VJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 15:48:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DTmOS-0002ji-Tm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 15:52:21 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DTmIq-0001EO-Q5; Thu, 05 May 2005 15:46:32 -0400 Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: <85mzraqm9k.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Thu, 05 May 2005 07:23:19 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36721 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36721 This can't be done completely mechanically, since one has to check when the last copyrightable changes (and not all changes are copyrightable) have been, correct? That's correct, aside from one subtle point. It's not that "not all changes are copyrightable" but rather that "not all changes are big enough to count for copyright purposes". So the question, for each year, is "were substantial changes made during that year". If yes, that year should be mentioned. Substantial means adding up to more than 10-15 lines of total change. So yes, a human being has to check it.