Re: Adding missing copyright years

[Bill Wohler]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:

>     In addition, Richard has told me that multi-line copyrights are OK,
>     and you can use two-digit years as long as they are bracketed by
>     matching four digit years (for example, 1996, 97, 98, 1999, 2000, 01,
>     02, 2003).
> 
> That was what a lawyer told me several years ago, but more recently (a
> year or two ago) Eben Moglen said it was better to write each year
> number completely.

I'd have to agree too (not that my opinion counts ;-). I'll do that in
the MH-E package while I'm at it. Thanks for the info.

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