From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7728 invoked by alias); 3 Jan 2012 15:47:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 7718 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Jan 2012 15:47:23 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from relay1.mentorg.com (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:47:08 +0000 Received: from nat-ies.mentorg.com ([192.94.31.2] helo=EU1-MAIL.mgc.mentorg.com) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1Ri6Zu-0003fD-V4 from joseph_myers@mentor.com ; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:47:07 -0800 Received: from digraph.polyomino.org.uk ([172.16.63.104]) by EU1-MAIL.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:47:04 +0000 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.74) (envelope-from ) id 1Ri6Zr-0004lb-T6; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:47:03 +0000 Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:47:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" To: Joel Brobecker cc: Yao Qi , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: RFA: Using year ranges in copyright notices... In-Reply-To: <20120103101447.GL2730@adacore.com> Message-ID: References: <20120103042431.GI2730@adacore.com> <20120103085234.GK2730@adacore.com> <4F02CEE3.6080909@codesourcery.com> <20120103101447.GL2730@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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/msg00095.txt.bz2 On Tue, 3 Jan 2012, Joel Brobecker wrote: > +Such ranges are used when nontrivial changes were made to that file > +each and every year in the range (inclusive). The FSF rule for listing a year is "nontrivial changes to the package" rather than "to that file" (this is the basis on which it's OK to update the year in all files at the start of the year). As I understand it, this combines with the rule about ranges to allow "-2012" for every file (at least, if there is some version in version control from each year in the range). -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com