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Re: Copyrights
- To: Dave Love <d dot love at dl dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Copyrights
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at hurl dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 11:28:14 -0700
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <rzq1zl7dtt9.fsf@djlvig.dl.ac.uk>you write:
> Should _all_ edits update the copyright, or only `significant' ones?
> >From rms's practice it seems only the latter for some suitable
> definition.
>
> [For users of the One True Editor who haven't spotted it, note
> `M-x copyright-update' manually or, say, via `write-file-hooks'.]
Only significant ones. For example if you change an email address in a
comment there's no need to update the copyright.
If there's ever a doubt about whether or not a change is significant enough
to trigger a copyright change asssume it is significant enough.
jeff