From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>
To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC #2] Update/correct copyright notices
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 11:56:00 -0000
Message-id: <1010305195545.ZM5140@ocotillo.lan>
References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010305094727.23825U-100000@is> <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
X-SW-Source: 2001-03/msg00076.html

On Mar 5,  9:47am, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > -@c Copyright 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > +@c Copyright 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> >  @c
> >  @c %**start of header 
> >  @c makeinfo ignores cmds prev to setfilename, so its arg cannot make use
> > 
> > Yikes!  All the original years disappeared!
> > 
> > This file was created on 1995-01-07.  I checked the Red Hat archive:
> > the earliest revision of this file at Red Hat has the exact copyright
> > line shown ("1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994").  There's no evidence
> > that this file was carved out of another file, but I recommend leaving
> > the original copyright years in, as the original author wrote them in.
> 
> What, without the commas between the years?  Shouldn't we add the
> commas?

We should definitely add the commas.  In fact, it was the lack of
commas that made my script remove all of the original years.