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, 26 May 2005 02:00:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200505050128.KAA09924@etlken.m17n.org> <200505062342.IAA19054@etlken.m17n.org> <17022.33190.477016.139563@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <87ll63t15e.fsf@olgas.newt.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117088622 31495 80.91.229.2 (26 May 2005 06:23:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 06:23:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 26 08:23:40 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DbBm6-0008CU-FE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 08:23:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DbBq6-0007TL-G0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 02:27:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DbBSr-0006oU-8Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 02:03:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DbBSq-0006o4-0P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 02:03:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DbBSo-0006lT-3Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 02:03:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DbBRE-0002Do-2K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 02:01:48 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DbBQO-00048n-RK; Thu, 26 May 2005 02:00:56 -0400 Original-To: Bill Wohler In-reply-to: <87ll63t15e.fsf@olgas.newt.com> (message from Bill Wohler on Wed, 25 May 2005 15:02:21 -0700) 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:37676 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37676 In addition, Richard has told me that multi-line copyrights are OK, and you can use two-digit years as long as they are bracketed by matching four digit years (for example, 1996, 97, 98, 1999, 2000, 01, 02, 2003). That was what a lawyer told me several years ago, but more recently (a year or two ago) Eben Moglen said it was better to write each year number completely.