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Changes to Copyright: header after copyright assignment


From: Glenn Morris
Subject: Changes to Copyright: header after copyright assignment
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 20:35:34 +0100
User-agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)

If John Smith is the author of foo.el, with Copyright header:

Copyright (C) 2000, 2002, 2004  John Smith <address@hidden>

and in 2004 he assigns the copyright to the FSF so that foo.el can be
included in Emacs, should the Copyright in the Emacs version of foo.el
read:

Copyright (C) 2004  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 2000, 2002, 2004  John Smith <address@hidden>

or just:

Copyright (C) 2000, 2002, 2004  Free Software Foundation, Inc.

or something else?

Maintain.texi "Copyright Notices" suggests the latter:

   For an FSF-copyrighted package, if you have followed the procedures
   to obtain legal papers, each file should have just one copyright
   holder: the Free Software Foundation, Inc.

but I'm unsure about being revisionist (as it were).

I guess this is not an Emacs-specific question, but someone here will
probably know. Thanks in advance.




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