From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Katsumi Yamaoka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Updating copyright years (was Re: [gnus git] branch master updated: n0-17-447-g55c26cf =1= Add 2012 to FSF copyright years for Emacs files.) Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:05:39 +0900 Organization: Emacsen advocacy group Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325804765 26441 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2012 23:06:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 23:06:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 06 00:06:01 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RiwNl-0003FO-6Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:06:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56596 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiwNk-0003ol-Av for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:06:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46939) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiwNh-0003mv-0a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:05:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiwNe-0007Mq-N6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:05:56 -0500 Original-Received: from orlando.hostforweb.net ([216.246.45.90]:50932) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiwNe-0007MC-By for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:05:54 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60560) by orlando.hostforweb.net with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RiwNa-0000pT-Uh; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:05:51 -0600 X-Face: #kKnN,xUnmKia.'[pp`; Omh}odZK)?7wQSl"4o04=EixTF+V[""w~iNbM9ZL+.b*_CxUmFk B#Fu[*?MZZH@IkN:!"\w%I_zt>[$nm7nQosZ<3eu; B:$Q_:p!',P.c0-_Cy[dz4oIpw0ESA^D*1Lw= L&i*6&( User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.92 (i686-pc-cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MURHnFrcsm2EzfxWNDAcQsF2bLc= X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - orlando.hostforweb.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - jpl.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-Received-From: 216.246.45.90 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147363 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80775 Archived-At: +Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Katsumi Yamaoka writes: >> Add 2012 to FSF copyright years for Emacs files. Cf. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.diffs/112565 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.cvs/11711 > Should this be done for files that haven't changed? As for emacs-w3m and others I update the copyright years on a file only when having changed it for the first time in the year. But Emacs people seem to have been updating it at the beginning of every year regardless of having been changed or not. And as for those changes I worked as an engineer to merge changes made in Emacs and Gnus mutually (I've also updated some extra files, e.g. gnus-xmas.el and friends, though). I used to feel Emacs' way strange. Maybe updating the copyright years of Walt Disney's works every year is nonsense. But Emacs' way is alike to it. What is TRT?