Re: Copyright years

[Richard M. Stallman]

    emacs and its maintenance regimen precede GNU, so it is not surprising
    that there is policy discrepency.  i will hazard a guess that it will be
    the GNU coding standards that will ultimately change to be similar to
    emacs' policy, and not the other way around.

We already did change the GNU maintenance policies.

(GNU was started in Jan 1984.  GNU Emacs was started in Sep 1984.)