From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to update the copyright notice? Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 19:32:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <52BA0AFD.7030609@poczta.onet.pl> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1387932177 7809 80.91.229.3 (25 Dec 2013 00:42:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2013 00:42:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jarek Czekalski Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 25 01:43:05 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VvcPJ-0001dG-IF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Dec 2013 01:33:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40763 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VvcPJ-00043F-4r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 19:33:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52747) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VvcPF-0003zh-3q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 19:33:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VvcPE-0007OO-8p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 19:33:01 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40759) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VvcPE-0007OK-6V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 19:33:00 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VvcPD-0005O5-NK; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 19:32:59 -0500 In-reply-to: <52BA0AFD.7030609@poczta.onet.pl> (message from Jarek Czekalski on Tue, 24 Dec 2013 23:30:21 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:166864 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] 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 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.