From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31929 invoked by alias); 3 Jan 2012 06:29:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 31920 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Jan 2012 06:29:26 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (140.186.70.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:29:13 +0000 Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rhxs0-00008Y-05; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:29:12 -0500 Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:29:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Joel Brobecker CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20120103042431.GI2730@adacore.com> (message from Joel Brobecker on Tue, 3 Jan 2012 08:24:31 +0400) Subject: Re: RFA: Using year ranges in copyright notices... Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20120103042431.GI2730@adacore.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00079.txt.bz2 > Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 08:24:31 +0400 > From: Joel Brobecker > > 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.