Index: emacs/admin/notes/years diff -c emacs/admin/notes/years:1.2 emacs/admin/notes/years:1.3 *** emacs/admin/notes/years:1.2 Wed May 25 14:28:23 2005 --- emacs/admin/notes/years Fri Jul 29 18:05:51 2005 *************** *** 1,11 **** ! THIS DOCUMENT IS UNDER REVIEW. ! DO NOT FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS -- THEY ARE NOT CORRECT. ! How to Maintain Copyright Years for GNU Emacs Principle: Individual files need to have the year of the release --- 1,23 ---- + How to Maintain Copyright Years for GNU Emacs ! "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." + --RMS, 2005-07-13 ! ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ! ! ! 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
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