Re: update copyrights?

[Bruno Haible]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> If everyone agrees, I'd like to update copyrights, too,
> before the new year.

You mean, changing
   Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
   Free Software Foundation, Inc.
to
   Copyright (C) 1999-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
?

It's allowed by current FSF rules, but the fact that the FSF did not want it
for 15 years does not give me a comfortable feeling. Rather, I fear that, with
a small percentage probability, the rule may change again, in the opposite
direction. So I would prefer to wait for 1 or 2 more years before doing that.

Bruno