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diff --git a/doc/maintain.texi b/doc/maintain.texi index 47ad93eb94..33b851bcab 100644 --- a/doc/maintain.texi +++ b/doc/maintain.texi @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ @c For double-sided printing, uncomment: @c @setchapternewpage odd @c This date is automagically updated when you save this file: -@set lastupdate December 25, 2005 +@set lastupdate December 30, 2005 @c %**end of header @dircategory GNU organization @@ -473,10 +473,15 @@ known to work. 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 |