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copyright year range policy
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Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
copyright year range policy |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:24:26 +0200 |
Since I've used copyright year ranges in this project, I've
just pushed this to make it clear that no information has been lost:
>From b64f0d8b85c65749d587fc95a123dc450c5b50ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:25:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] maint: describe policy on copyright year number ranges
* README: Mention coreutils' long-standing policy on use of M-N
ranges in copyright year lists. Requested by Richard Stallman.
---
README | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README b/README
index bf1ac9e..a71659d 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -124,6 +124,9 @@ team. zip and unzip are not associated with the GNU project.
See http://info-zip.org/ for more about zip and unzip.
+For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package
+note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.
+
========================================================================
Copyright (C) 1999, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 Free Software
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1.7.3.1.104.gc752e
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