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[gnu-emacs] / admin / notes / years

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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 How to Maintain Copyright Years for GNU Emacs
-
+  (see also file "copyright" in this directory)
 
 "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[1].  We don't
@@ -20,17 +20,6 @@ For the refcards under etc/, it's ok to simply use the latest year
 notice, while maintaining the full list of years in the copyright notice
 in the comments.
 
-
-Please fix or report any non-trivial files that have "odd" copyright
-notices.  This includes missing copyright notices, and copyright
-holders other than FSF (or AIST in some cases).  In most cases,
-individual authors should not appear in copyright statements.  Either
-the copyright has been assigned (check copyright.list) to the FSF (in
-which case the original author should be removed and the year(s)
-transferred to the FSF); or else it is possible the file should not be
-in Emacs at all (please report!).
-
-
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