From 5bf9d07a07f8d203c90d537a085d0629a468d583 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glenn Morris Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:43:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Remove information on maintaining copyright years; it does not belong here and is in admin/notes anyway. --- etc/CONTRIBUTE | 19 ------------------- 1 file changed, 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/etc/CONTRIBUTE b/etc/CONTRIBUTE index 8d48ea8f985..d44b7164198 100644 --- a/etc/CONTRIBUTE +++ b/etc/CONTRIBUTE @@ -183,25 +183,6 @@ of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual may also help. The file etc/DEBUG describes how to debug Emacs bugs. - -* How to Maintain Copyright Years for GNU Emacs - -See admin/notes/copyright. - -** 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!). - -** For those files that have been added since then, we should add -the year it was added to Emacs, and all subsequent years. - -** 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 -notice, while maintaining the full list of years in the copyright notice -in the comments. - - This file is part of GNU Emacs. -- 2.39.5