RFA: Using year ranges in copyright notices...

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 08:24:31 +0400
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> 
> A bit of a trivial question, but I wanted to be sure it's OK to do so.
> I would like us to use address ranges in our copyright headers, instead
> of explicitly listing each and every year.

This needs to be cleared with lawyers @gnu.org.  At least at some
point, Richard explicitly asked _not_ to use ranges, due to some legal
issues, and I don't think I saw that restriction lifted since then.

At the very least, we should ask Richard about that.