Re: Copyright years

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

David Kastrup wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>   
>>> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 17:02:59 +0900
>>> From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
>>> Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>>
>>> On 2/9/06, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> 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... :-)
>>>       
>> Right, why in the world didn't I think about it?  Thanks!!
>>     
>
> That change is not copyrightable, as it does not contain creative
> content.
>   
It looks to me like content that is only creative.