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Re: bad copyright years


From: Glenn Morris
Subject: Re: bad copyright years
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:47:48 -0500
User-agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)

Nick Roberts wrote:

> I guess it also means list the copyright owners at the time.  

Not quite sure what you mean, but if you mean what I think you mean,
then no.

When someone assigns copyright to the FSF, their name gets removed
from the Copyright statement, and FSF gets added. Even for years
before the present (because the assignment is retroactive).

See thread:

  From: Sascha Wilde <address@hidden>
  Subject: Legal question on copyright notices
  To: address@hidden
  Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 16:06:05 +0200

> It gets released separately though, and works with XEmacs from what
> I understand e.g

I don't think that has any relevance here.





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