Re: Finish updating copyright years

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

>>>>>> "Richard" == Richard M Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Richard> Would people please finish the updating the copyright years?
> Richard> That is standing in the way of the release.
>
> Just to make sure this is legal... the copyright year *cannot* change
> unless something has changed (besides the copyright notice).
>
> You can't take every file and just s/2004/2005/g, for example.  You
> can update the copyright if some change was actually made in the file.
>
> It's conceivable, and in fact very likely, that some of the files
> will still be copyright 2004 or earlier in this next release.

Which is why the copyright year updating process can't be automated.
Which is the reason that Richard is asking for volunteers to do the
update.  It's not like we have not had not extensive discussions on
the list about this.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum