Re: Copyright years

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 17:02:59 +0900
>> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>> 
>> On 2/9/06, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > > Yes--just add ", 2006" to each and every file's copyright notice.
>> >
>> > Why is this required?  I thought the rules said to only do that
>> > for files on which we actually worked in the year 2006.  Suppose
>> > there's a file that wasn't touched in years--why should we
>> > pretend that we did something there in the year 2006?
>> 
>> Well by adding the ", 2006", the file has been touched -- and it's
>> 2006... :-)
>
> Right, why in the world didn't I think about it?  Thanks!!

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