# HG changeset patch # User Glenn Morris # Date 1169952755 0 # Node ID 4fca1052121f8a68d5db17c20d06dfc610a05f82 # Parent 34448acdaf7e4036e7506c63cc09c4ccd72bea23 Move some stuff to new file "copyright". diff -r 34448acdaf7e -r 4fca1052121f admin/notes/years --- a/admin/notes/years Sun Jan 28 02:51:26 2007 +0000 +++ b/admin/notes/years Sun Jan 28 02:52:35 2007 +0000 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ How to Maintain Copyright Years for GNU Emacs - + (see also file "copyright" in this directory) "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[1]. We don't @@ -20,24 +20,6 @@ notice, while maintaining the full list of years in the copyright notice in the comments. - -Please fix or report any non-trivial files that have "odd" copyright -notices. This includes missing copyright notices, and copyright -holders other than FSF (or AIST in some cases). In most cases, -individual authors should not appear in copyright statements. Either -the copyright has been assigned (check copyright.list) to the FSF (in -which case the original author should be removed and the year(s) -transferred to the FSF); or else it is possible the file should not be -in Emacs at all (please report!). - -When updating the copyright in a file (eg a .tex file) that generates -another file distributed with Emacs, don't forget to check in a -regenerated version of the target file. - -For auto-generated files (eg ldefs-boot.el), RMS says (20061211, -private mail): "Since they are automatically generated, it doesn't -really matter what they say." - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------