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GNU C Library master sources branch, master, updated. glibc-2.14-398-g627145f


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commit 627145fd6a327c1bce89bf7a0c37da42a7393ecb
Author: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org>
Date:   Thu Oct 20 17:46:24 2011 -0400

    Document copyright year range notation in README.
    
    The FSF now allows year range notation for copyright years.
    
    See `6.5 Copyright Notices' from:
    http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html
    
    We comply with the FSF requirements for the use of range
    notation by documenting the usage in our README.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c076b36..f2ebf14 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2011-10-20  Carlos O'Donell  <carlos@codesourcery.com>
+
+	* README: Define copyright year range notation.
+
 2011-10-20  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@redhat.com>
 
 	[BZ #12892]
diff --git a/README b/README
index 7c27e36..728e7d7 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -94,4 +94,7 @@ This web page gives detailed information on how to report bugs properly.
 
 The GNU C Library is free software.  See the file COPYING.LIB for copying
 conditions, and LICENSES for notices about a few contributions that require
-these additional notices to be distributed.
+these additional notices to be distributed.  License copyright years may be
+listed using range notation, e.g., 2000-2011, indicating that every year in
+the range, inclusive, is a copyrightable year that would otherwise be listed
+individually.

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Summary of changes:
 ChangeLog |    4 ++++
 README    |    5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


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