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Richard Stallman wrote:

> They assigned the entire program IDLWAVE, plus any future changes to
> it. That is normal; no problem.

If you say there is no problem here, fine.

If you have time to explain, however, I'd like to understand why this
file has a slightly different copyright header to most others.

Why is it:

;; Copyright (c) 2000 Carsten Dominik
;; Copyright (c) 2001, 2002 J.D. Smith
;; Copyright (c) 2003,2004,2005,2006 Free Software Foundation

and not:

;; Copyright (c) 2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006 Free Software Foundation