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Re: update copyrights?


From: Alfred M. Szmidt
Subject: Re: update copyrights?
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:55:05 -0500

   You mean, changing
      Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
      Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   to
      Copyright (C) 1999-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   ?

   It's allowed by current FSF rules, but the fact that the FSF did
   not want it for 15 years does not give me a comfortable
   feeling. Rather, I fear that, with a small percentage probability,
   the rule may change again, in the opposite direction. So I would
   prefer to wait for 1 or 2 more years before doing that.

Since when is this "allowed"?  The GNU maintainer guide say explicitly
that it isn't:

| Do not abbreviate the year list using a range; for instance, do not
| write @samp{1996--1998}; instead, write @samp{1996, 1997, 1998}.




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