# HG changeset patch # User Glenn Morris # Date 1190594621 0 # Node ID c7006132af9360166b3b4838e0c45e3c61bf7cda # Parent 354002bb202181d33638ca3db9e084bdb7dd7fdd Remove information on maintaining copyright years; it does not belong here and is in admin/notes anyway. diff -r 354002bb2021 -r c7006132af93 etc/CONTRIBUTE --- a/etc/CONTRIBUTE Mon Sep 24 00:43:27 2007 +0000 +++ b/etc/CONTRIBUTE Mon Sep 24 00:43:41 2007 +0000 @@ -183,25 +183,6 @@ The file etc/DEBUG describes how to debug Emacs bugs. - -* How to Maintain Copyright Years for GNU Emacs - -See admin/notes/copyright. - -** 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. We don't -need to check whether *that file* was changed in those years. -It's sufficient that *Emacs* was changed in those years (and it was!). - -** For those files that have been added since then, we should add -the year it was added to Emacs, and all subsequent years. - -** For the refcards under etc/, it's ok to simply use the latest year -(typically in a `\def\year{YEAR}' expression) for the rendered copyright -notice, while maintaining the full list of years in the copyright notice -in the comments. - - This file is part of GNU Emacs.