Re: RFA: Using year ranges in copyright notices...

Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-01-03T06:58:23Z

> 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.

This needs to be cleared with lawyers @gnu.org. At least at some
point, Richard explicitly asked _not_ to use ranges, due to some
legal issues, and I don't think I saw that restriction lifted since
then.

At the very least, we should ask Richard about that.

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.