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From: |
Brett Smith |
Subject: |
www/licenses gpl-howto.html |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:04:41 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Brett Smith <brett> 11/02/14 22:04:41
Modified files:
licenses : gpl-howto.html
Log message:
Make year range recommendation basically match what we tell GNU
maintainers.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/licenses/gpl-howto.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.32&r2=1.33
Patches:
Index: gpl-howto.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/licenses/gpl-howto.html,v
retrieving revision 1.32
retrieving revision 1.33
diff -u -b -r1.32 -r1.33
--- gpl-howto.html 15 Jul 2010 15:42:45 -0000 1.32
+++ gpl-howto.html 14 Feb 2011 22:04:31 -0000 1.33
@@ -35,9 +35,12 @@
versions were finished in 1998 and some were finished in 1999. If
several people helped write the code, use all their names.</p>
-<p>For software with several releases over multiple years, it is best to
-spell out each year, in full, without using ranges or abbreviations, as
-in the example above.</p>
+<p>For software with several releases over multiple years, it's okay
+to use a range (“2008-2010”) instead of listing individual
+years (“2008, 2009, 2010”) if and only if every year in
+the range, inclusive, really is a “copyrightable” year
+that would be listed individually; <em>and</em> you make an explicit
+statement in your documentation about this usage.</p>
<p>Always use the English word “Copyright”; by international
convention, this is used worldwide, even for material in other
@@ -211,7 +214,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2010/07/15 15:42:45 $
+$Date: 2011/02/14 22:04:31 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
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