Copyright years (was Re: help/version patches)

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

"Chris January" <chris@atomice.net> writes:

> Since when have common sense and the law gone together.

Hmm, that's a good point.  I think there was some logic to what I
said, but that may well be irrelevant.

> I would point out that the GCC team have recently changed all their
> copyrights from the incorrect range format to a list of years
> because this is simply the right thing to do from a legal point of
> view. (see http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-01/msg01192.html).

Ok, thanks for pointing that out.
Jan.

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