Mention rendered/commented copyright notice practice

for refcards under etc/.

diff --git a/admin/notes/years b/admin/notes/years
index 0434193db3e9607252c419a77396d76f2acda279..155ccd6f0658de2a418f1e2a6ad78d45ad5b5288 100644 (file)
--- 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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