@c For double-sided printing, uncomment:
@c @setchapternewpage odd
@c This date is automagically updated when you save this file:
-@set lastupdate December 9, 2005
+@set lastupdate December 30, 2005
@c %**end of header
@dircategory GNU organization
To update the list of year numbers, add each year in which you have
made nontrivial changes to the package. (Here we assume you're using
a publicly accessible revision control server, so that every revision
-installed is also immediately and automatically published.) Several
-trivial changes that add up to a nontrivial change do count as such.
-When you add the new year, you should add it in the copyright notice
-of each file of the package.
+installed is also immediately and automatically published.) When you
+add the new year, it is not required to keep track which files have
+seen significant changes in the new year and which have not. It is
+recommended and simpler to add the new year to all files in the
+package, and be done with it for the rest of the year.
+
+For files which are regularly copied from another project (such as
+@samp{gnulib}), the copyright notice should left as it is in the
+original.
Don't delete old year numbers, though; they can indicate when older
versions might theoretically go into the public domain. If you copy a
Do not abbreviate the year list using a range; for instance, do not
write @samp{1996--1998}; instead, write @samp{1996, 1997, 1998}.
+The copyright statement may be split across multiple lines, both in
+source files and in any generated output. This often happens for
+files with a long history, having many different years of
+publication.
+
For an FSF-copyrighted package, if you have followed the procedures to
obtain legal papers, each file should have just one copyright holder:
the Free Software Foundation, Inc. You should edit the file's
projects / gnulib.git / blobdiff