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Re: Copyright year ranges


On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Carlos O'Donell
<carlos@systemhalted.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
>> There were releases in 1991 too.
>
> What do we think of adding something like this to the glibc/README?
>
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index 728e7d7..8b43708 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -97,4 +97,9 @@ conditions, and LICENSES for notices about a few
> contributions that require
> Âthese additional notices to be distributed. ÂLicense copyright years may be
> Âlisted using range notation, e.g., 2000-2011, indicating that every year in
> Âthe range, inclusive, is a copyrightable year that would otherwise be listed
> -individually.
> +individually. License copyright years may be rewritten using range notation,
> +e.g., 1991-2012, as long as a release (public or beta) was made in the
> +intermediate year, or there was public version control in that year. The
> +GNU C Library has been making releases since 1991, therefore you may collapse
> +any range of years before 1991 into a range notation using the previously
> +described process.

Do you mean "any range of years after 1991"?

Ryan


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