From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1081 invoked by alias); 3 Jan 2012 07:16:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 1067 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Jan 2012 07:15:58 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:15:44 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E92CB2BAE86; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 02:15:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id vUU69uYCGhKs; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 02:15:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 844F82BAE4D; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 02:15:43 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DA9BE145615; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 11:15:34 +0400 (RET) Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:16:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Cc: Eli Zaretskii , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: RFA: Using year ranges in copyright notices... Message-ID: <20120103071534.GJ2730@adacore.com> References: <20120103042431.GI2730@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-01/txt/msg00081.txt.bz2 > It is documented in (maintain) Copyright Notices: > > | 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. Excellent. Thank you both for your help. Condition (1) will be met, and I will see about (2). -- Joel