Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > Glenn Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> How is the copyright header supposed to deal with this kind of >> gradual, cumulative change? > > does admin/notes/years (just installed) address this question?
A list of guidelines like this is clearly needed and should prove very helpful, thanks. An initial comment: - sometimes the release year slips, leaving a file w/ prematurely marked release year => need update (e.g., s/2004/2005/ for Emacs 22) It is my understanding this is not correct when the source is available all the time via CVS. Whenever changes are made they can be considered to be "released". This means that for Emacs, a distinction must be made between the periods before/after the point when development switched to CVS (this was when?). Before this point, one needs to know the years when releases were made. After this point, the dates of releases become irrelevant. This probably explains the "2004 changed into 2005" issue. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
