From: Glenn Morris Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 04:45:37 +0000 (-0700) Subject: * admin/notes/years: Small updates. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-24.0.90~104^2~275^2~215^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f74c8aebdda87b6e50bb676c79b88884b8330806;p=emacs.git * admin/notes/years: Small updates. --- diff --git a/admin/notes/years b/admin/notes/years index cdd7cbe4b5f..e6b38c5aefd 100644 --- a/admin/notes/years +++ b/admin/notes/years @@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ rolls around, add that year to every FSF (and AIST) copyright notice. There's no need to worry about whether an individual file has changed in a given year - it's sufficient that Emacs as a whole has changed. +Therefore the years are updated en-masse near the start of each year, +so basically there is no need for most people to do any updating of them. + +The current (in 2011) version of "Information for Maintainers of GNU +Software" (see that document for more details) says that it is OK to use +ranges in copyright years, so in early 2011 the years were changed to use +ranges, which occupy less space and do not grow in length every year. + For more detailed information on maintaining copyright, see the file "copyright" in this directory.