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Re: How to update the copyright notice?
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: How to update the copyright notice? |
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Tue, 24 Dec 2013 19:32:59 -0500 |
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Updating copyright notice is as useless as the gnu license note itself
in all files. If we are serious about the copyright notice, we should
also be serious about the dates. I don't understand why we should state
in all the files that they were modified in 2014, if they actually were
not.
Our lawyer said to list, in each file of Emacs, the years in which
Emacs (as a whole) was modified nontrivially. Once Emacs is modified
nontrivially in 2014, that list of years should include 2014.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org www.gnu.org
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