Maintaining copyright years is now very simple: every time a new year
rolls around, add that year to every FSF (and AIST) copyright notice.
+Do this by running the 'admin/update-copyright' script on a fresh repo
+checkout. Inspect the results for plausibility, then commit them.
There's no need to worry about whether an individual file has changed
in a given year - it's sufficient that Emacs as a whole has changed.
since Emacs 21 came out in 2001, all the subsequent years[1]. 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!).
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For those files that have been added since then, we should add
the year it was added to Emacs, and all subsequent years."
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--RMS, 2005-07-13
[1] Note that this includes 2001 - see