Re: lm-verify, long copyright line

[Mike Kupfer]

Paul Eggert wrote:

> Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I'd still much prefer the continuation lines to be indented.
> 
> I looked into do that, and it's a bit of a pain. Mike's patch is not
> quite right, since it causes update-copyright to generate lines like
> this:
> 
> -   Copyright (C) 2002, 2004-2007, 2009-2017 Free Software Foundation,
> -     Inc.
> 
> instead of like this:
> 
> +   Copyright (C) 2002, 2004-2007, 2009-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

I don't understand why the second form is correct, given that
update-copyright has this comment:

#   1. Fit within 72 columns.

mike