www/server/standards boilerplate.html

[Karl Berry]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Karl Berry <karl>       12/02/29 14:24:18

Modified files:
        server/standards: boilerplate.html 

Log message:
        explain more about copyright years

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/standards/boilerplate.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.65&r2=1.66

Patches:
Index: boilerplate.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/server/standards/boilerplate.html,v
retrieving revision 1.65
retrieving revision 1.66
diff -u -b -r1.65 -r1.66
--- boilerplate.html    3 Jan 2012 01:15:31 -0000       1.65
+++ boilerplate.html    29 Feb 2012 14:23:29 -0000      1.66
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--#include virtual="/server/html5-header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: $Revision: 1.65 $ -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: $Revision: 1.66 $ -->
 
 <!-- This is the template document for GNU web pages.  We use
      server side includes (#include) for common elements, for
@@ -177,8 +177,20 @@
      pages on the GNU web server should be under CC BY-ND 3.0 US.
      Please do NOT change or remove this without talking
      with the webmasters or licensing team first.
-     Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the document
-     and that it is like this: "2001, 2002", not this: "2001-2002". -->
+     Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the document.
+     For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the document
+     was modified, or published.
+     
+     If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too.
+     Either "2001, 2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying
+     years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable
+     year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including
+     being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system).
+     
+     There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
+     Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
+
+
 </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
 <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
 <div id="footer">
@@ -203,7 +215,7 @@
 
 <p>Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2012/01/03 01:15:31 $
+$Date: 2012/02/29 14:23:29 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>