From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Copyright notices Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:16:42 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1121232592 13152 80.91.229.2 (13 Jul 2005 05:29:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 05:29:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 13 07:29:52 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DsZoJ-0005wB-AR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 07:29:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DsZpy-0005BE-CD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:31:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DsZmk-0003zh-IV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:27:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DsZmW-0003pb-SN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:27:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DsZmW-0003kx-3X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:27:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DsZmf-0002Nt-F3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:27:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DsZbu-0004eY-Iw; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:16:42 -0400 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org 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:40856 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40856 Our lawyer says it is ok if we add, to each file that has been in Emacs since Emacs 21 came out in 2001, all the subsequent years. We don't need to check whether *that file* was changed in those years. It's sufficient that *Emacs* was changed in those years (and it was!). For those files that have been added since then, we should add the year it was added to Emacs, and all subsequent years. This is much easier than before, since it doesn't require checking anything except whether the file was added after Emacs 21 and (if so) what year it was added in. Can people please start the work over, based on this advice?