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From: Jarek Czekalski <jarekczek@poczta.onet.pl>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to update the copyright notice?
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 23:30:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52BA0AFD.7030609@poczta.onet.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c0sitihxfm.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

W dniu 12/24/2013 08:16 PM, Glenn Morris pisze:
> Updating the copyrights is a meaningless, almost entirely automatic 
> task, that only one person can sensibly do. IMO, you really should not 
> waste time learning about it. 

Updating copyright notice is as useless as the gnu license note itself 
in all files. If we are serious about the copyright notice, we should 
also be serious about the dates. I don't understand why we should state 
in all the files that they were modified in 2014, if they actually were 
not. On the other hand I wouldn't start a discussion about it, but if 
someone wants to start a discusion about the pointelessness of copyright 
notice, I think I may chime in. I believe in gnu license and treat it 
seriously. See this post for example:
https://forums.mozilla.org/addons/viewtopic.php?p=30185&sid=3aa0fd477d05c2e34adb5aa30710c18b

Jarek




  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-24 22:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-24 14:30 How to update the copyright notice? Xue Fuqiao
2013-12-24 18:30 ` Paul Eggert
2013-12-24 19:23   ` Glenn Morris
2013-12-24 20:04     ` Glenn Morris
2013-12-24 20:17       ` Paul Eggert
2013-12-25  1:59         ` Glenn Morris
2013-12-24 20:18     ` Paul Eggert
2013-12-24 19:16 ` Glenn Morris
2013-12-24 22:30   ` Jarek Czekalski [this message]
2013-12-25  0:32     ` Richard Stallman
2013-12-24 22:51   ` Xue Fuqiao

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