Preferred format of Copyright statement

[Rodney Brown]

> > From: Rodney Brown 
> > Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 23:14:51 +1000 (EST)

> > Copyright 1990, 91, 92, 93, 94, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
...
> > Does this form meet the FSF need for squeaky clean legalities?

> No.  The FSF asks for full 4-digit years. The statement above should
> be:

> Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1999 Free Software Foundation,
> Inc.

> I know this has a tendency to line-wrap, but so what?  No human will
> ever care.  So we might as well make it completely correct.

Ok, will produce that form.
  Given that the first attempt over gdb
gives a patch file of ~900k touching 1725 files, would it be more useful
to provide patches for the few percent of cases needing manual fixes and
provide the script to be run when the maintainer finds it convenient?
Or should it only fix those with ranges or 2-digit years and leave (C)
removal where the year list is Ok?

(Trying to conserve maintainer think time, not be a WOFTAM).

Regards,
--
Rodney Brown