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[bug-idutils] copyright year range policy


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: [bug-idutils] copyright year range policy
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:25:56 +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 57eecc80290c10e0a6e63396d91b1e6cadb9a6be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:25:04 +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 8c7694f..cfd1454 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ See file `NEWS' for a list of major changes in the current 
release.
 See file `THANKS' for a list of contributors.
 See file `TODO' for planned enhancements.

+For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package
+note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.
+
 Mail suggestions and bug reports for these programs to
 <address@hidden>.

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1.7.3.1.104.gc752e



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