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From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Cc: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nl>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Finish updating copyright years
Date: 31 Oct 2005 08:26:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86vezdlkke.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3fyqhemsw.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk>

>>>>> "Kim" == Kim F Storm <storm@cua.dk> writes:

Kim> But take emacs/src/xdisp.c as an example.  It is 23750 lines of C code.

Kim> Now, suppose I changed 25 lines in that file.  So only a fraction of
Kim> the file is new creativity, but still I would update the copyright to
Kim> say (C) 2005.

And you would be wrong, according to my sources.  You should change
that file to say (c) 2004, 2005.

Kim> We can argue about this issue forever, but if our lawyer says the
Kim> policy is ok, I'm ok with that.

And that's why I'm not arguing for change, just making sure I'm clear
on everyone's point and everyone is clear on mine.

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-31 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-31  1:14 Finish updating copyright years Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-31  6:19 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2005-10-31  9:56   ` David Kastrup
2005-10-31 11:47   ` Nick Roberts
2005-10-31 13:03     ` Randal L. Schwartz
2005-10-31 12:49   ` Piet van Oostrum
2005-10-31 14:05     ` Randal L. Schwartz
2005-10-31 14:22       ` Piet van Oostrum
2005-10-31 14:34         ` Randal L. Schwartz
2005-10-31 14:58       ` Kim F. Storm
2005-10-31 15:02         ` Randal L. Schwartz
2005-10-31 15:19           ` Kim F. Storm
2005-10-31 16:26             ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2005-11-01 21:52           ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-01  2:13   ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-02  8:01 ` Glenn Morris
2005-11-03 13:49   ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-04 18:12     ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2005-11-05 14:35       ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-05 15:27         ` Alfred M. Szmidt

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