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: Mon, 09 May 2005 17:02:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200505050128.KAA09924@etlken.m17n.org> <200505062342.IAA19054@etlken.m17n.org> <17022.33190.477016.139563@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115673675 28350 80.91.229.2 (9 May 2005 21:21:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 21:21:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, handa@m17n.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 09 23:21:13 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVFfp-0007ze-Px for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2005 23:20:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVFoE-0007Ce-JA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2005 17:29:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DVFhi-0004bg-M5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2005 17:22:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DVFhh-0004bG-Te for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2005 17:22:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVFfc-0003W9-99 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2005 17:20:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DVFVo-0003wK-Gm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2005 17:10:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DVFOq-0005Hr-BN; Mon, 09 May 2005 17:02:48 -0400 Original-To: Nick Roberts In-reply-to: <17022.33190.477016.139563@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (message from Nick Roberts on Mon, 9 May 2005 09:16:22 +1200) 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:36917 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36917 So, in principle, updating the copyright might not just entail adding copyright years but also taking them away. Yes, in some cases. However I still don't understand what the problem is if the copyright includes years for which the there are no copyrightable changes. We would in some sense be making a false statement, and that might be embarrassing some day. We should try our best to avoid inaccuracy.