From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Copyright years Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 02:22:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139469815 17218 80.91.229.2 (9 Feb 2006 07:23:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 07:23:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 09 08:23:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F7695-0000cr-HJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:23:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F7694-00008A-QT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 02:23:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F768r-00007u-SZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 02:23:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F768r-00007i-F7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 02:23:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F768r-00007f-Cv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 02:23:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F76CL-00024V-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 02:26:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1F768k-00053k-GD; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 02:22:54 -0500 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (rms@gnu.org) 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:50235 Archived-At: > From: "Richard M. Stallman" > Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:58:08 -0500 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Is the following the correct way to write it? > > ;; Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > Yes--just add ", 2006" to each and every file's copyright notice. Why is this required? I thought the rules said to only do that for files on which we actually worked in the year 2006. Suppose there's a file that wasn't touched in years--why should we pretend that we did something there in the year 2006? I'm asking because copyright issues are tricky, and the rules should be therefore clear and unequivocal, IMHO. They should also be uniform across the GNU project's maintainers.