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: copyright for merged code Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 21:33:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115947682 30012 80.91.229.2 (13 May 2005 01:28:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 01:28:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 13 03:28:01 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWOy6-0006Po-R9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 03:27:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWP79-0006FR-Np for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 21:37:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DWP6U-00060C-VC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 21:36:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DWP6T-0005zR-Mu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 21:36:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWP6T-0005zG-Dz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 21:36:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DWPBh-0001JC-1P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 21:42:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DWP3f-0001wE-9e; Thu, 12 May 2005 21:33:43 -0400 Original-To: ttn@glug.org In-reply-to: (message from Thien-Thi Nguyen on Thu, 12 May 2005 12:25:56 +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:37051 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37051 i'm presently updating the copyright years in lisp/net/ and have come upon a doubt: certain files have been merged from outside emacs, w/ copyright notices that show years prior to their merging (as far as i can tell from looking at the "cvs log" output for these files). i am inclined to remove those years completely, but would like confirmation that this is the correct approach. Please keep the years that were put in the notices before the files were installed into Emacs.