On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 04/27/2012 03:18 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> On 04/27/2012 05:30 AM, Peter Johansson wrote: >> +++ b/aclocal.in >> @@ -840,9 +840,8 @@ $output"; >> # name in the header. >> $output = "# generated automatically by aclocal $VERSION -*- Autoconf -*- >> >> -# Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, >> -# 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, >> -# Inc. >> +# Copyright (C) 1996-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > This makes sense,
This took me by surprise, because it wasn't the case previously. It is now acceptable usage according to GNU standards, see http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6576 and http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html """" You can use a range (‘2008-2010’) instead of listing individual years (‘2008, 2009, 2010’) if and only if: 1) every year in the range, inclusive, really is a “copyrightable” year that would be listed individually; and 2) you make an explicit statement in a ‘README’ file about this usage. """ I suggest you update README to follow the guidelines. The guidelines don't say what exactly should be in the notice, but I presume it's a statement to the effect that 1) above holds. -- Jack
