From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Copyright years Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:49:12 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139524191 5690 80.91.229.2 (9 Feb 2006 22:29:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 22:29:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 09 23:29:48 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F7KIB-0007PU-Fl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:29:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F7KIA-0002ll-K6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 17:29:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F7IkX-0006Uh-I3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:50:45 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F7IkV-0006Tq-Es for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:50:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F7IkV-0006Tn-CQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:50:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.17] (helo=gandalf.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F7Ino-0004VN-VD; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:54:09 -0500 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (nitzan.inter.net.il [192.114.186.20]) by gandalf.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.1-GA) with ESMTP id HVE20475; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 22:49:12 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-71-5.inter.net.il [80.230.71.5]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id CRC13227 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 22:49:10 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Thien-Thi Nguyen In-reply-to: (message from Thien-Thi Nguyen on 09 Feb 2006 05:00:24 -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:50272 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Thien-Thi Nguyen > Date: 09 Feb 2006 05:00:24 -0500 > > the rationale is: "there" is all of emacs, and each file must not > present a hole in the protection of all of emacs. My problem is that the GNU Coding Standards still have this paragraph: This copyright notice only needs to mention the most recent year in which changes were made---there's no need to list the years for previous versions' changes. To me, ``the most recent year in which changes were made'' clearly says that you change the copyright year(s) only when you make changes in that file. IANAL, so if these instructions are changed, I won't mind. I just want them to be clear and unequivocal, and uniform across all the packages that are part of the GNU project.