From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Finish updating copyright years Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:56:32 +0100 Message-ID: <85irvexb5b.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <86ll0ap5sl.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1130758544 7248 80.91.229.2 (31 Oct 2005 11:35:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:35:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 31 12:35:42 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EWXvc-0006Jp-GG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:34:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EWXtr-0006pt-0q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:32:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EWWcX-0001nZ-In for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 05:10:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EWWax-0001Yc-KL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 05:08:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EWWaa-0001Rt-9K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 05:08:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EWWaa-00030k-7v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 05:08:28 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EWWaS-0005L3-CG; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 05:08:20 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 45FE41C01C5D; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:56:33 +0100 (CET) Original-To: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) In-Reply-To: <86ll0ap5sl.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (Randal L. Schwartz's message of "30 Oct 2005 22:19:22 -0800") 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:45164 Archived-At: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: >>>>>> "Richard" == Richard M Stallman writes: > > Richard> Would people please finish the updating the copyright years? > Richard> That is standing in the way of the release. > > Just to make sure this is legal... the copyright year *cannot* change > unless something has changed (besides the copyright notice). > > You can't take every file and just s/2004/2005/g, for example. You > can update the copyright if some change was actually made in the file. > > It's conceivable, and in fact very likely, that some of the files > will still be copyright 2004 or earlier in this next release. Which is why the copyright year updating process can't be automated. Which is the reason that Richard is asking for volunteers to do the update. It's not like we have not had not extensive discussions on the list about this. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum