Re: gpl version 2 for cvs

[Riley Williams]

Hi Karl.

> 2) Ranges in copyright years are not allowed.  Each year must be written
>    out.  This sucks too.

That's also not completely true. If you're talking about US copyright
law, then it's possibly true. Under UK copyright law, the opposite is
true: If copyright is claimed for more than two consecutive years, then
they MUST be specified as a range to be legally valid.

> Here's the example from bison.
>
> /* Subroutines for bison
>    Copyright 1984, 1989, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Note that the listed years do not include three consecutive ones, so
this is valid in the UK.

Best wishes from Riley.