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Re: Copyright year ranges
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Marek Polacek <polacek at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:10:19 -0500
- Subject: Re: Copyright year ranges
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On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
> There were releases in 1991 too.
What do we think of adding something like this to the glibc/README?
diff --git a/README b/README
index 728e7d7..8b43708 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -97,4 +97,9 @@ conditions, and LICENSES for notices about a few
contributions that require
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.
+individually. License copyright years may be rewritten using range notation,
+e.g., 1991-2012, as long as a release (public or beta) was made in the
+intermediate year, or there was public version control in that year. The
+GNU C Library has been making releases since 1991, therefore you may collapse
+any range of years before 1991 into a range notation using the previously
+described process.
Cheers,
Carlos.