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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Years in copyright notices
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 22:42:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040618024234.GB27750@fencepost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3brjitjhw.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk>

On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 03:13:47PM +0200, Kim F. Storm wrote:
> > The latest legal advice I got is that we should not drop the 19 or 20
> > from year numbers in copyright notices.  There is no need to change
> > all the existing notices, but the year numbers we add should be
> > written in 4 digits.
> 
> Why not do it properly if we are going to fix 04 -> 2004 anyway?

_Please_ do not do random `cleanups' if they're not really necessary; it
simply makes for more merge conflicts.

-Miles
-- 
Next to fried food, the South has suffered most from oratory.
  			-- Walter Hines Page

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-18  2:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-17  5:08 Years in copyright notices Richard Stallman
2004-06-17 13:13 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-06-18  2:42   ` Miles Bader [this message]
2004-06-18 21:51   ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-21 20:46 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-06-22  5:18   ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-06-22 23:17   ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-23  7:09     ` Jan D.
2004-06-24 23:48       ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-23  8:08     ` Kim F. Storm
2004-06-23  8:22       ` Miles Bader
2004-06-23  9:58         ` Kim F. Storm
2004-06-24 23:48         ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-25  0:03           ` Miles Bader
2004-06-23 22:39       ` Kevin Ryde

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