From d0278ce84522bdbc650e00e91137904e001b5de9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:05:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update. Include emacs-devel message fragment. --- admin/notes/years | 18 +++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) 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 -- 2.39.5