# HG changeset patch # User Glenn Morris # Date 1168919677 0 # Node ID f3a5f0fb329743fe61bfbaf9395bb88b1b74edc3 # Parent 6d19c76d81c5182f3ce244d6d24d8da9e0a05d43 *** empty log message *** diff -r 6d19c76d81c5 -r f3a5f0fb3297 admin/notes/years --- a/admin/notes/years Tue Jan 16 03:47:24 2007 +0000 +++ b/admin/notes/years Tue Jan 16 03:54:37 2007 +0000 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "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 + since Emacs 21 came out in 2001, all the subsequent years[1]. 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!). @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ --RMS, 2005-07-13 +[1] Note that this includes 2001 - see + + 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 @@ -18,6 +21,16 @@ 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!). + + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------