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diff --git a/etc/CONTRIBUTE b/etc/CONTRIBUTE index 8d48ea8f985..d44b7164198 100644 --- a/etc/CONTRIBUTE +++ b/etc/CONTRIBUTE @@ -183,25 +183,6 @@ of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual may also help. 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. |