FYI: copyright years updated...

[Joel Brobecker]

> How come people are committing copyright year-2013 updates at the
> *beginning* of the year - before any changes have been made?

I am not a lawyer, and just follow the recommendation from the FSF
as I understand it (documented in "Information for Maintainers
of GNU Software). I don't know if the update needs to wait for
a significant change, or not, or whether the copyright update it itself
is a legally significant change. Regardless, I was pretty sure that
pending another end of the world, someone was going to make a significant
change sometime in 2013... Just the ChangeLog rotation, for instance,
which was made prior to the copyright update, could qualify as
a significant change...

-- 
Joel