John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 1-Jan-2011, Karl Berry wrote:
>
> | Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] maint: new rule to update copyright year ranges
> |
> | This brings up a related topic that belatedly crossed my mind recently.
> | rms stated an extra requirement of making a statement in the README
> | about copyright ranges when they are used.
>
> The maintainers guide that is currently on gnu.org says
>
> 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.
>
> If there is supposed to be an "explicit statement" about using
> ranges of years in copyright statements, could you please give us a
> clue about exactly what that statement should say? It's not
> immediately clear to me precisely what statement should appear in the
> README file.
Hi John,
I added this sentence to coreutils' README and a couple others:
For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package
note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.
