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 22:21:51 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139523773 4216 80.91.229.2 (9 Feb 2006 22:22:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 22:22:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 09 23:22:45 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 1F7KBY-0005mn-IK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:22:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F7KBX-0007yE-Nx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 17:22:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F7IKK-0003xW-Bk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:23:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F7IKI-0003wk-DC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:23:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F7IKH-0003wZ-OW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:23:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.17] (helo=gandalf.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F7INH-0001Kb-Ps; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:26:44 -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 HVE14913; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 22:21:50 +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 CRC03644 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 22:21:48 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Miles Bader In-reply-to: (message from Miles Bader on Thu, 9 Feb 2006 17:02:59 +0900) 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:50270 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 17:02:59 +0900 > From: Miles Bader > Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On 2/9/06, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Yes--just add ", 2006" to each and every file's copyright notice. > > > > Why is this required? I thought the rules said to only do that for > > files on which we actually worked in the year 2006. Suppose there's a > > file that wasn't touched in years--why should we pretend that we did > > something there in the year 2006? > > Well by adding the ", 2006", the file has been touched -- and it's 2006... :-) Right, why in the world didn't I think about it? Thanks!!