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| author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2011-04-25 21:45:37 -0700 |
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| committer | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2011-04-25 21:45:37 -0700 |
| commit | f74c8aebdda87b6e50bb676c79b88884b8330806 (patch) | |
| tree | 1c6b4167cef4471bb5b75b6d515fe038f8046d55 /admin | |
| parent | f2d3ba6f13adac8f2fb8595f3425cb8d085bd9c4 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-f74c8aebdda87b6e50bb676c79b88884b8330806.tar.gz | |
* admin/notes/years: Small updates.
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diff --git a/admin/notes/years b/admin/notes/years index cdd7cbe4b5f..e6b38c5aefd 100644 --- a/admin/notes/years +++ b/admin/notes/years @@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ rolls around, add that year to every FSF (and AIST) copyright notice. There's no need to worry about whether an individual file has changed in a given year - it's sufficient that Emacs as a whole has changed. +Therefore the years are updated en-masse near the start of each year, +so basically there is no need for most people to do any updating of them. + +The current (in 2011) version of "Information for Maintainers of GNU +Software" (see that document for more details) says that it is OK to use +ranges in copyright years, so in early 2011 the years were changed to use +ranges, which occupy less space and do not grow in length every year. + For more detailed information on maintaining copyright, see the file "copyright" in this directory. |