From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Copyright years Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 17:02:59 +0900 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139472203 23933 80.91.229.2 (9 Feb 2006 08:03:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 08:03:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 09 09:03:19 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 1F76ln-0000Nd-Fu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:03:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F76lm-00046W-Vv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 03:03:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F76lc-00046R-L0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 03:03:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F76lb-00045y-5n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 03:03:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F76la-00045t-Vu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 03:03:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.249.92.194] (helo=uproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F76p5-0006ZZ-HR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 03:06:39 -0500 Original-Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id y2so96818uge for ; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:03:00 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=K4l88zTQF0csPtHIsjzzzUZKayHVFaUJN8Vj8fnLl9AEZKJuesDEYRHqZaFg6RW7vQAGPHiwil92CW0jmSmrFN+7ArN+An9rZZhJlDBOl8gZDDK9K8nQihj6Vx4rOOTalM3RFdwiA1l3VXk5fdMThRTCe0Q/1G70pJQh6yHy51U= Original-Received: by 10.49.10.14 with SMTP id n14mr2265818nfi; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:02:59 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.48.1.9 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 00:02:59 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline 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:50237 Archived-At: On 2/9/06, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > 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? Well by adding the ", 2006", the file has been touched -- and it's 2006... = :-) -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.