Re: copyright years: mass-update every January 1

[Karl Berry]

    > While at it, why not standardize everything to 4 digits

Sounds like a good idea to me< FWIW.

The 2-digit years came about because rms "optimized" it with lawyers
umpteen years ago.  When I questioned him about it more recently (maybe
only .3umpteen years :), he went back to the lawyers and this time the
advice was to always use four-digit years.

As usual with these matters, there is no pressing need to go back and
change all the existing notices, but the more that get converted to the
currently-standard form, the better.

k