Re: Years in copyright notices

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:08:41AM +0200, Kim F. Storm wrote:
> A Miles pointed out, this will lead to some merge conflicts, but since
> this is legal stuff, we have to accept that inconvenience.

Richard's post indicated that we do _not_ have to `accept that
inconvenience', that it isn't a critical point.

> I can do this if you approve.

Making sure the copyright notices include the appropriate years is reasonable
-- and probably won't result in all that many problems because many files are
already up-to-date -- but changing the date format is apparently not
necessary (according to Richard's post), and will result in many more
conflicts.

-Miles
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