Re: libtool.texi: copyright notice patch

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Christophe,

* Christophe Jarry wrote on Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 12:07:23PM CEST:
> I found that the copyright notice of the file doc/libtool.texi does not follow
> "Information for Maintainers of GNU Software" at
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html#Copyright-Notices.
> 
> This documents states:
> 
>     Don’t delete old year numbers, though; they are significant since they
>     indicate when older versions might theoretically go into the public 
> domain,
>     if the movie companies don’t continue buying laws to further extend
>     copyright. If you copy a file into the package from some other program, 
> keep
>     the copyright years that come with the file.
> 
>     You can use a range (‘2008-2010’) instead of listing individual years
>     (‘2008, 2009, 2010’) if and only if: 1) every year in the range, 
> inclusive,
>     really is a “copyrightable” year that would be listed individually; and
>     2) you make an explicit statement in a ‘README’ file about this usage.
> 
> I have seen no such "explici statement" in the file README so I send you the
> patch for doc/libtool.texi.

I'm sure you would agree that an explicit statement would be more
maintainable though, no?

Thanks,
Ralf

> -Copyright (C) 1996-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> +Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 
> 2006,
> +2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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