Mention rendered/commented copyright notice practice

for refcards under etc/.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/admin/notes/years b/admin/notes/years
index 0434193db3e..155ccd6f065 100644
--- a/admin/notes/years
+++ b/admin/notes/years
@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ How to Maintain Copyright Years for GNU Emacs
  --RMS, 2005-07-13
 
 
+For the refcards under etc/, it's ok to simply use the latest year
+(typically in a `\def\year{YEAR}' expression) for the rendered copyright
+notice, while maintaining the full list of years in the copyright notice
+in the comments.
+
+
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