Re: update-copyright vs. compressed years

[Karl Berry]

    +Copyright (C) 1996, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008-2009 Free Software

Perhaps update-copyright could detect the convention being used, to
placate Jim :).  Failing that, pushing Jim's willful decision to
compress years into update-copyright seems like the wrong move to me :).

I've never seen anything legal that implies that ranges are ok; just the
opposite.  Of course I agree with Jim that the chances of it ever
causing a problem in practice are epsilon.  But still ... one way is
clearly ok, the other not.

karl