[Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r104012: * admin/notes/years: Small updates.

[Glenn Morris]

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revno: 104012
committer: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
branch nick: trunk
timestamp: Mon 2011-04-25 21:45:37 -0700
message:
  * admin/notes/years: Small updates.
modified:
  admin/notes/years

=== modified file 'admin/notes/years'
--- a/admin/notes/years 2009-01-12 06:35:57 +0000
+++ b/admin/notes/years 2011-04-26 04:45:37 +0000
@@ -6,6 +6,14 @@
 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.
 
+Therefore the years are updated en-masse near the start of each year,
+so basically there is no need for most people to do any updating of them.
+
+The current (in 2011) version of "Information for Maintainers of GNU
+Software" (see that document for more details) says that it is OK to use
+ranges in copyright years, so in early 2011 the years were changed to use
+ranges, which occupy less space and do not grow in length every year.
+
 For more detailed information on maintaining copyright, see the file
 "copyright" in this directory.