From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Updating copyright years (was Re: [gnus git] branch master updated: n0-17-447-g55c26cf =1= Add 2012 to FSF copyright years for Emacs files.)
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:45:36 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739bs475r.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4mzke1zr5o.fsf_-_@jpl.org>
Katsumi Yamaoka writes:
Hi, Katsumi!
> I used to feel Emacs' way strange. Maybe updating the copyright
> years of Walt Disney's works every year is nonsense.
That can't be done because Walt is dead, and therefore cannot add to
his works.[1]
> But Emacs' way is alike to it.
No, it's not. Emacs's source copyrights are updated every year
because Emacs itself is different every year; but old copies of Emacs
in any form do not have their copyrights updated.
> What is TRT?
Emacs's way. Copyright is weird, agreed, but given the way copyright
works, Emacs does the right thing.
Footnotes:
[1] Of course, Congress regularly does something even more offensive
(ie, extend the term of existing copyrights). But that's not the same
as updating the copyright of an existing work.
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2012-01-05 11:58 ` [gnus git] branch master updated: n0-17-447-g55c26cf =1= Add 2012 to FSF copyright years for Emacs files Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-05 23:05 ` Updating copyright years (was Re: [gnus git] branch master updated: n0-17-447-g55c26cf =1= Add 2012 to FSF copyright years for Emacs files.) Katsumi Yamaoka
2012-01-05 23:14 ` Updating copyright years Glenn Morris
2012-01-05 23:54 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2012-01-07 0:13 ` Richard Stallman
2012-01-10 23:35 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-01-11 13:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-01-11 19:39 ` Richard Stallman
2012-01-07 1:45 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2012-01-07 4:16 ` Updating copyright years (was Re: [gnus git] branch master updated: n0-17-447-g55c26cf =1= Add 2012 to FSF copyright years for Emacs files.) Jason Rumney
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