Re: Finish updating copyright years

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Kim" == Kim F Storm <address@hidden> writes:

Kim> address@hidden (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
>> Copyright (c) 1994, 2005 Randal L. Schwartz
>> 
>> without any new creative content, because that would be artificially
>> extending the date of original publication, and that's not legal.

Kim> IIUC, the argument is that the copyright applies to the Emacs release
Kim> as a whole, and *Emacs* has definitely changed in 2005.

Darn it, stop picking a fight with me. :)

That same argument would have applied to my books then, as well, but I
was given precisely the opposite advice.  The *entire* book hasn't
changed, just *some* of the words and pages.  Same is true for emacs:
you didn't rewrite it from scratch between 2004 and 2005: some of the
code is *identically* the same.  Therefore, it's not a *new* creative
act... but a composite of existing creativity *plus* new creativity.

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