Re: Copyright notices

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:20:51 -0500
> From: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>
> 
> Of course, instead, you could use grep to look for files that 'find'
> produced and search for "Copyright (C)" to know what files should be
> updated. That way, you don't have to store a list of files that needs to
> be maintained.

The relevant Emacs command already does that--it searches for the
telltale Copyright strings and updates them, it doesn't just blindly
add a Copyright notice where none is present.

But that doesn't solve the problem that Daniel pointed out, since the
generated files also have the Copyright notice.  See the various
configure scripts, for example.  We don't want to update those, but
instead should regenerate them whenever their source files get updated
with another year's copyright.