On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Axel Kittenberger wrote: > But why are we required to keep each modification year? Wouldn't a range > (like 1989-2001) also do it? Or what would be the advantages to track each year > seperatly? Legal reasons. See http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain_7.html Alan Modra -- Linuxcare. Support for the Revolution.