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[gnu-emacs] / admin / notes / years

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@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 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.  We don't
+ 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!).
 
@@ -11,6 +11,14 @@ How to Maintain Copyright Years for GNU Emacs
 
  --RMS, 2005-07-13
 
+[1] Note that this includes 2001 - see
+<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-12/msg00119.html>
+
+
+For the refcards under etc/, it's ok to simply use the latest year
+(typically in a `\def\year{YEAR}' expression) for the rendered copyright
+notice, while maintaining the full list of years in the copyright notice
+in the comments.
 
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