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Re: [rfa] Add a name field to ``struct floatformat''
- To: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Subject: Re: [rfa] Add a name field to ``struct floatformat''
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 13:51:20 -0600
- cc: nickc at cygnus dot com, ac131313 at cygnus dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <200005301856.OAA10673@envy.delorie.com>you write:
>
> > : ! Copyright (C) 1991, 1994, 1999-2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> >
> > I believe that the FSF lawyer has said that we should avoid date
> > ranges in copyright statements, since it may not be clear if the range
> > is inclusive, exclusive or somehting else. Instead, each year should
> > be specified explicitly.
>
> I've heard this also; apparently a year range isn't legal. Only a
> list of years are legal. More info in the GNU maintainer's manual
> (although this point isn't mentioned) or at this url in particular:
More correctly, there's questions about its legality. Thus using ranges
is considered inappropriate for FSF code. I had to go through all of the
gcc sources and fix them. Ugh.
jeff