From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Years in copyright notices Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:17:42 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200406212046.i5LKkju24244@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087946420 29147 80.91.224.253 (22 Jun 2004 23:20:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 23:20:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 23 01:20:15 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BcuYp-0006br-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 01:20:15 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BcuYp-0006xB-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 01:20:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bcua9-0002f6-OH for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:21:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BcuYF-0001U7-Rg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:19:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BcuYE-0001TT-TC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:19:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BcuYE-0001TE-Lm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:19:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BcuWe-0003xV-L2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:18:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BcuWM-0001ml-DF; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:17:42 -0400 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200406212046.i5LKkju24244@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:46:45 -0500 (CDT)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:25195 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25195 What is the exact policy concerning copyright years? I see that some people update the copyright years when they make changes, but apparently most people do not. Are copyright years automatically updated from CVS data when a release is made? We need to update the copyright years for all the files. One reason we don't always add a year when making a change is that we don't add a year when only small changes are made during that year. That means that people making small changes in a file often don't check to see whether the changes in the current year are enough to justify adding the year. Does anyone want to help in this process of adding the years that should be added?