Re: Help testing emacs-28.3-rc1.tar.gz on MS-Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: casouri@gmail.com, stefankangas@gmail.com, njackson@posteo.net,
>       emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 21:06:16 -0400
> 
>   > > I would be remiss to take whichwever advice is most convenient for us
>   > > just because it is convienient.
>   > > 
>   > > But I will ask a lawyer who advises the FSF about this question.
> 
>   > Any news about this?
> 
> No -- I was busy and let it drop.
> 
> But we don't need to recheck the advice we got before.
> We wrote down what it was and we can keep following it.

I don't think I understand: are you saying you have already asked the
lawyers about this and received their answers?  Or that the current
practice is fine and we could keep using it?

If the latter, then while the current situation is definitely not a
catastrophe, if we can avoid updating the copyright years every year,
it would reduce the maintenance burden, the code churn, and the need
to recompile everything once a year (per each branch), altogether
contributing to energy savings and keeping down the emissions, which
is good for the world at large.  So I think it's worth our while to
see if this nuisance can be avoided.

TIA