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author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2007-01-16 03:54:37 +0000 |
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committer | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2007-01-16 03:54:37 +0000 |
commit | 631e2c0f553fe0976ca7847381026300aa315375 (patch) | |
tree | ebff7eb477e4b3b3ef890a6fdc351b4cea966256 /admin/notes/years | |
parent | b3d90e4611747fe8aa17c2e3e8895b8749276712 (diff) | |
download | emacs-631e2c0f553fe0976ca7847381026300aa315375.tar.gz |
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diff --git a/admin/notes/years b/admin/notes/years index 155ccd6f065..7000f0942c1 100644 --- a/admin/notes/years +++ b/admin/notes/years @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ How to Maintain Copyright Years for GNU Emacs "Our lawyer says it is ok if we add, to each file that has been in Emacs - since Emacs 21 came out in 2001, all the subsequent years. We don't + since Emacs 21 came out in 2001, all the subsequent years[1]. We don't need to check whether *that file* was changed in those years. It's sufficient that *Emacs* was changed in those years (and it was!). @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ How to Maintain Copyright Years for GNU Emacs --RMS, 2005-07-13 +[1] Note that this includes 2001 - see +<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-12/msg00119.html> + For the refcards under etc/, it's ok to simply use the latest year (typically in a `\def\year{YEAR}' expression) for the rendered copyright @@ -18,6 +21,16 @@ notice, while maintaining the full list of years in the copyright notice in the comments. +Please fix or report any non-trivial files that have "odd" copyright +notices. This includes missing copyright notices, and copyright +holders other than FSF (or AIST in some cases). In most cases, +individual authors should not appear in copyright statements. Either +the copyright has been assigned (check copyright.list) to the FSF (in +which case the original author should be removed and the year(s) +transferred to the FSF); or else it is possible the file should not be +in Emacs at all (please report!). + + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |