From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Jarek Czekalski <jarekczek@poczta.onet.pl>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to update the copyright notice?
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 19:32:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1VvcPD-0005O5-NK@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52BA0AFD.7030609@poczta.onet.pl> (message from Jarek Czekalski on Tue, 24 Dec 2013 23:30:21 +0100)
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Updating copyright notice is as useless as the gnu license note itself
in all files. If we are serious about the copyright notice, we should
also be serious about the dates. I don't understand why we should state
in all the files that they were modified in 2014, if they actually were
not.
Our lawyer said to list, in each file of Emacs, the years in which
Emacs (as a whole) was modified nontrivially. Once Emacs is modified
nontrivially in 2014, that list of years should include 2014.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
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USA
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Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-25 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-24 14:30 How to update the copyright notice? Xue Fuqiao
2013-12-24 18:30 ` Paul Eggert
2013-12-24 19:23 ` Glenn Morris
2013-12-24 20:04 ` Glenn Morris
2013-12-24 20:17 ` Paul Eggert
2013-12-25 1:59 ` Glenn Morris
2013-12-24 20:18 ` Paul Eggert
2013-12-24 19:16 ` Glenn Morris
2013-12-24 22:30 ` Jarek Czekalski
2013-12-25 0:32 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2013-12-24 22:51 ` Xue Fuqiao
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