From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Updating copyright years (was Re: [gnus git] branch master updated: n0-17-447-g55c26cf =1= Add 2012 to FSF copyright years for Emacs files.) Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:16:12 +0800 Message-ID: <87ty48jgfn.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325909795 2104 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2012 04:16:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 04:16:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Katsumi Yamaoka Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 07 05:16:31 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RjNhm-0003Tq-EV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 05:16:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42475 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RjNhl-0007Qz-Ix for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:16:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37229) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RjNhj-0007Qo-QU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:16:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RjNhi-0003Zt-G6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:16:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-iy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.210.169]:44579) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RjNhi-0003Zg-AH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:16:26 -0500 Original-Received: by iacb35 with SMTP id b35so4264152iac.0 for ; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:16:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=6WI70cW2GDVF28+c7k32wAr+qy4waDB0iGR2wf5mV1A=; b=FiqCzgOokn8I+BLNzcopwuyuOcJW9z7fwgkPOHpfIDA1kFlD6sT95WFh/d+z3TgiP0 BRWMJ38PKD0F1RWl0PjhLOVd0PR8nn54OhkK7Iggve/9iDS2P+XydaDfHy4R6Je+JmET sMexGfJTnxhjPSGq5qkjDg+hAwwLG6O5Hzk2U= Original-Received: by 10.50.85.199 with SMTP id j7mr472639igz.25.1325909784748; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:16:24 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from home.jasonrumney.net ([180.75.216.89]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gf6sm961783igb.1.2012.01.06.20.16.19 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:16:24 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by home.jasonrumney.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 00F3E1827; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 12:16:12 +0800 (MYT) In-Reply-To: (Katsumi Yamaoka's message of "Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:05:39 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.210.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147430 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80814 Archived-At: Katsumi Yamaoka writes: > I used to feel Emacs' way strange. Maybe updating the copyright > years of Walt Disney's works every year is nonsense. But Emacs' > way is alike to it. What is TRT? Emacs is a single "work", so a single copyright date is appropriate. It is much less error prone to do it all in one sweep, as there is no risk of a developer making a change to a file (which may be in 11 months time) and forgetting to update the copyright notice.