Mercurial > emacs
changeset 84828:c7006132af93
Remove information on maintaining copyright years; it does not belong
here and is in admin/notes anyway.
| author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:43:41 +0000 |
| parents | 354002bb2021 |
| children | 534b1b9b7dcd |
| files | etc/CONTRIBUTE |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- 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.