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| author | Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> | 2005-07-29 18:05:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> | 2005-07-29 18:05:51 +0000 |
| commit | d0278ce84522bdbc650e00e91137904e001b5de9 (patch) | |
| tree | b8053bba0eceb279bd3b80e0a0c1af75ceafb6e3 /admin/notes/years | |
| parent | 972b8f8248329a03883f12c82236f6d6aff4499c (diff) | |
| download | emacs-d0278ce84522bdbc650e00e91137904e001b5de9.tar.gz | |
Update. Include emacs-devel message fragment.
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diff --git a/admin/notes/years b/admin/notes/years index 453712e4c02..0434193db3e 100644 --- a/admin/notes/years +++ b/admin/notes/years @@ -1,11 +1,23 @@ +How to Maintain Copyright Years for GNU Emacs - THIS DOCUMENT IS UNDER REVIEW. +"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 + need to check whether *that file* was changed in those years. + It's sufficient that *Emacs* was changed in those years (and it was!). - DO NOT FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS -- THEY ARE NOT CORRECT. + For those files that have been added since then, we should add + the year it was added to Emacs, and all subsequent years." + --RMS, 2005-07-13 -How to Maintain Copyright Years for GNU Emacs + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + +Following is the policy that we tried to write down one time (mid 2005). +Although it is incorrect, we keep it around to remind us how complicated +things used to be (and may become in the future). Principle: Individual files need to have the year of the release |