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: Re: Copyright notices Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:45:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <17130.41727.178496.468583@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17132.7450.945474.746680@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122858089 26223 80.91.229.2 (1 Aug 2005 01:01:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 01:01:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 01 03:01:21 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DzOgA-0002hI-VP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 03:01:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DzOin-00079O-Ib for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:04:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DzOgU-0005di-FG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:01:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DzOgJ-0005Xl-9P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:01:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DzOgJ-0005Qn-5L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:01:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DzOeD-0005Fl-Jo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:59:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DzOR7-0003vb-8J; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:45:45 -0400 Original-To: Nick Roberts In-reply-to: <17132.7450.945474.746680@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (message from Nick Roberts on Sun, 31 Jul 2005 12:36:42 +1200) 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:41384 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41384 It occurs to me that if there isn't a release until 2006 (or later!) then all the files will need to be changed again. Now that the legal advice suggests a straightforward solution perhaps this process could (ultimately) be scripted. It could be so. perhaps all files could display the _same_ copyright notice (apart from comment delimiters) for the period from the start of Emacs (1985?) to the present? No, because most files were added to Emacs later than 1985, and some of them have years when they were released by their authors bevore they were added to Emacs. A script to add a certain year to all files in a certain directory, or to the files that are specified for it, would do the job. Doing this is not quite trivial, but not terribly hard. Would you like to write it? Not only is the year wrong but it seems to suggest that everything before 2004 is not copyrighted. No, it doesn't mean that. Don't worry.