RFA: Using year ranges in copyright notices...

Joel Brobecker
2012-01-03T04:24:59Z

Hello,

A bit of a trivial question, but I wanted to be sure it's OK to do so.
I would like us to use address ranges in our copyright headers, instead
of explicitly listing each and every year. One striking example would
be valprint.c:

- Copyright (C) 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996,
- 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,
- 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 1986, 1988-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Here is how it would look like for typeprint.h, for instance:

- Copyright (C) 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991-1993, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2008, 2009,
- 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 1986, 1988-1989, 1991-1993, 1999-2000, 2007-2012 Free
+ Software Foundation, Inc.

Any objection? A quick answer would be appreciated, as I am planning
on folding this change with the copyright year update commit.
Committing this massive change takes a lot of time, so I'd rather
only have to do one of them.

Thanks,
--
Joel