Re: Help testing emacs-28.3-rc1.tar.gz on MS-Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2023 06:06:24 -0800
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> N. Jackson <njackson@posteo.net> writes:
> 
> > When I build this tarball I get
> >
> >   GNU Emacs 28.3 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.35, cairo 
> > version 1.17.6)
> >    of 2023-02-19
> >   Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> >
> > which is last year.
> >
> > Also the README file (which has the version number for this release,
> > so presumably it has been modified) still has a 2022 copyright date.
> 
> There are a gazillion files where the copyright date is 2022 instead of
> 2023, and I'd like to avoid going over all of them.  Perhaps we could
> change just a few of them, however, if it's important and/or worth
> doing.  Eli, WDYT?

Unfortunately, I think we must update all of them, for legal reasons.
Let's ask Richard.

Richard, am I right that we must update the copyright years on all of
the files in the Emacs 28.3 tarball, even though it is an emergency
security release?