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 years Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:01:48 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139612608 16234 80.91.229.6 (10 Feb 2006 23:03:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:03:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 11 00:03:20 2006 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1F7hIO-0002rs-00 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:03:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F7hIM-0005rT-7y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:03:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F7hH6-0005N5-FS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:02:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F7hH4-0005ME-Ps for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:02:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F7hH4-0005M9-KR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:01:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F7hKv-0000JC-TH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:05:57 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1F7hGu-0007L2-MS; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:01:48 -0500 Original-To: Thien-Thi Nguyen In-reply-to: (message from Thien-Thi Nguyen on 09 Feb 2006 19:05:44 -0500) 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:50330 Archived-At: emacs and its maintenance regimen precede GNU, so it is not surprising that there is policy discrepency. i will hazard a guess that it will be the GNU coding standards that will ultimately change to be similar to emacs' policy, and not the other way around. We already did change the GNU maintenance policies. (GNU was started in Jan 1984. GNU Emacs was started in Sep 1984.)