Re: bad copyright years

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:00:52 -0500
> 
>     > Btw, why isn't this change reflected in ChangeLog?
> 
>     To be honest, because the prospect of potentially writing ChangeLog
>     entries for 4000 files appalled me. These changes are all changes in
>     "comments" (essentially), which have no impact on how the code
>     performs.
> 
> In general we don't make change log entries for changes in comments.

Changing the copyright notice is not just any change in a comment.

If writing 4000 entries is too much (I don't understand why, a simple
script or even an Emacs macro could do that), then I suggest that at
least some general entry should be made about these mass changes.