This "Stallman" fellow has graciously assigned copyright to the FSF.

diff --git a/etc/NEWS.1-17 b/etc/NEWS.1-17
index 4b0a210931e6fff21f17d5b9d05714ab69b5836a..cb8e28d5f96ae147975668752b2363482909153b 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS.1-17
+++ b/etc/NEWS.1-17
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.  26-Mar-1986
-Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 2006, 2007  Richard M. Stallman.
+Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 2006, 2007  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end for copying conditions.
 
 This file is about changes in emacs versions 1 through 17.
@@ -2511,7 +2511,7 @@ Lisp programming changes
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Copyright information:
 
-Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 2006, 2007  Richard M. Stallman
+Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 2006, 2007  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
    Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
    of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the