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Re: Copyright updates
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 06:32:06AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Why are we including a package in GDB that is part of Emacs, and
> why modify it while doing that? Can't we simply tell people ``use
> copyright.el from Emacs''?
Pragmatics: Because I needed to modify it to get the results I posted.
Otherwise, it has no respect for margins - it would just push things
further and further out to the right. And because the version in the
last release of emacs was too old to use, and the version in emacs CVS
needs to be modified to work with my system's installed emacs.
I'm happy to just check in the year updates and hold on to the script
if that's controversial (which I realize it may be, given the FSF
policy on importing modified files). It's probably possible to rewrite
my changes to use an installed CVS emacs and its copyright.el plus a
little extra goo, but I can't do it; my Lisp is too weak and I've spent
all the time on automating this that I can afford to. Same goes for
trying to get the copy in emacs CVS improved. Sorry :-( Another six
hours in the day...
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery