Re: Allow use of ranges in copyright notices

2012-07-16 Thread Joseph S. Myers
I have now committed this patch to allow the use of ranges. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com

Re: Allow use of ranges in copyright notices

2012-07-02 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, David Edelsohn wrote: > There was a similar discussion many years ago. The dash format is > widely used, but the comma format has better legal clarity and > definition in worldwide copyright litigation, at least many years ago. Maybe questions about the meanings of the dash fo

Re: Allow use of ranges in copyright notices

2012-07-02 Thread David Edelsohn
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Robert Dewar wrote: > >> On 7/2/2012 8:35 AM, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> > On Jun 30, 2012, David Edelsohn wrote: >> > >> > > IBM's policy specifies a comma: >> > >> > > , >> > >> > > and not a dash range. >> > >> > But

Re: Allow use of ranges in copyright notices

2012-07-02 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Robert Dewar wrote: > On 7/2/2012 8:35 AM, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > On Jun 30, 2012, David Edelsohn wrote: > > > > > IBM's policy specifies a comma: > > > > > , > > > > > and not a dash range. > > > > But this notation already means something else in our source tree. >

Re: Allow use of ranges in copyright notices

2012-07-02 Thread Robert Dewar
On 7/2/2012 8:35 AM, Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 30, 2012, David Edelsohn wrote: IBM's policy specifies a comma: , and not a dash range. But this notation already means something else in our source tree. I think using the dash is preferable, and is a VERY widely used notation, us

Re: Allow use of ranges in copyright notices

2012-07-02 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 30, 2012, David Edelsohn wrote: > IBM's policy specifies a comma: > , > and not a dash range. But this notation already means something else in our source tree. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- G

Re: Allow use of ranges in copyright notices

2012-06-30 Thread David Edelsohn
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > I propose that GCC should allow the use of ranges of years (e.g. > 1987-2012) in copyright notices on source files. As described at > : > > * This requires a notice in REA

Allow use of ranges in copyright notices

2012-06-30 Thread Joseph S. Myers
I propose that GCC should allow the use of ranges of years (e.g. 1987-2012) in copyright notices on source files. As described at : * This requires a notice in README about the use of range notation; I propose such a notice bel