From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding missing copyright years Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 00:01:34 +0200 Message-ID: References: <85mzraqm9k.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <4ekc7rkm0.fsf@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116394771 21031 80.91.229.2 (18 May 2005 05:39:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 05:39:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 18 07:39:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYHGi-0001MK-Ua for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 07:38:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYHJ4-0005BN-JI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 01:41:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYA9y-0002jS-0q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 18:03:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYA9x-0002iq-73 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 18:03:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYA9w-0002cR-Tv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 18:03:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.236] (helo=pfepb.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DYAFx-0007ch-9h; Tue, 17 May 2005 18:09:41 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx3.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id BC29A5EE03D; Wed, 18 May 2005 00:01:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 17 May 2005 00:36:59 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:37234 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37234 Richard Stallman writes: > What if 10 lines get changed in each year of (say) 2000-2005 > inclusive? Each year, the changes are too small to be substantial. But > the net result is that the state of the code in 2005 differs > substantially from that of 2000 (by 60 lines in this example). How is > the copyright header supposed to deal with this kind of gradual, > cumulative change? > > I guess in that case we should list the years in which the change > accumulates to enough to be significant. Besides the strange updates to cua-base.el / cua-rect.el reported earlier, I also noticed that in net/telnet.el, year 2004 was _changed_ into 2005. But while there were changes in 2004, there are no changes in 2005. TO me, the recent updates seem to be a step backwards, rather than forwards, in terms of accuracy. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk