From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: bifurcated copyright for etc/*.tex files Date: 16 Aug 2005 07:45:44 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124195848 15500 80.91.229.2 (16 Aug 2005 12:37:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:37:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 16 14:37:20 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E50gx-0003zI-HK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:37:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E50kN-0003XV-AH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:40:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E5057-0007sO-MJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:58:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E504z-0007oC-Mo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:58:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E504z-0007U7-5T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:58:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [207.245.121.138] (helo=mail.agora-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1E508X-0007xB-Eg; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:01:45 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by mail.agora-net.com with local (Exim 4.34) id 1E4zt3-0005oM-12; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:45:45 -0400 Original-To: rms@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 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:42117 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:42117 for the etc/*.tex files, i would like to update the copyright notice in the comments w/ the full list of years, and the rendered copyright notice w/ 2005, only. for example: % Copyright (C) 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 FSF, Inc. ... \def\year{2005} the rationale is that for reference cards and such, a big (and ever-increasing) list of years is unnecessary clutter. what do you think of this (idea A)? another approach is to allow sequence-compression in the rendered notice, while keeping the comment fully expanded, like so: % Copyright (C) 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 FSF, Inc. ... \def\year{1997, 2002--2005} what do you think of this (idea B)? thi