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THIS DOCUMENT IS UNDER REVIEW.
DO NOT FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS -- THEY ARE NOT CORRECT.
How to Maintain Copyright Years for GNU Emacs
"Our lawyer says it is ok if we add, to each file that has been in Emacs
since Emacs 21 came out in 2001, all the subsequent years. We don't
need to check whether *that file* was changed in those years.
It's sufficient that *Emacs* was changed in those years (and it was!).
For those files that have been added since then, we should add
the year it was added to Emacs, and all subsequent years."
--RMS, 2005-07-13
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Following is the policy that we tried to write down one time (mid 2005).
Although it is incorrect, we keep it around to remind us how complicated
things used to be (and may become in the future).
Principle: Individual files need to have the year of the release
in the copyright notice if there is significant change.