From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: <binutils@sourceware.org>, <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
<gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: copyright dates in binutils (and includes/)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1402271845060.27019@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140227132551.GO4348@adacore.com>
On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> I should mention, however, that for us to use ranges like this,
> the FSF asked us to add a note explaining that the copyright years
> could be abbreviated into a range. See gdb/README (at the end).
> I suspect that you'll need the same note for binutils.
And, where a gap in the years is being implicitly filled in by conversion
to a range, make sure that either (a) there was a public version control
repository for binutils during that year, or (b) there was a release
(including beta releases, Cygnus releases etc., not just official
releases) during that year.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-27 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-27 4:50 Alan Modra
2014-02-27 13:25 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-02-27 18:47 ` Joseph S. Myers [this message]
2014-02-28 8:57 ` Alan Modra
2014-02-28 13:08 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-02-28 18:22 ` Joseph S. Myers
2014-03-03 3:45 ` Alan Modra
2014-03-03 4:16 ` Alan Modra
2014-03-03 13:33 ` Richard Sandiford
2014-03-05 12:34 ` Alan Modra
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