Re: calc version / copyright

[Jay Belanger]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Jay Belanger <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>>
>>> Doing h h in calc gives what looks like outdated info:
>>>
>>> GNU Emacs Calculator version 2.02g of Mon Nov 19 2001.
>>>   By Dave Gillespie, address@hidden
>>>   Copyright (C) 1990, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>
>> It's been updated; now it looks like
>>
>>  GNU Emacs Calculator version 2.1.
>>    By Dave Gillespie, address@hidden
>>    Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> You must not remove the old copyright years IIRC: copyright runs after
> publishing, and some parts of calc will have copyrights run out
> earlier.  All years with significant contributions should be mentioned
> at least in the source code, but probably also here.

All the years are of course still in the source code, but I didn't
think it'd be necessary to list them all here, and it tends to clutter
up the help screen. This is just an auto-generated summary page, it
isn't clear to me that the copyright information is necessary here at
all.  Is it?  I went to the Emacs splash page for inspiration; that
only puts up one year after the copyright. 

Jay