From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9799 invoked by alias); 27 Feb 2014 18:47:26 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 9772 invoked by uid 89); 27 Feb 2014 18:47:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: relay1.mentorg.com Received: from relay1.mentorg.com (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:47:24 +0000 Received: from svr-orw-fem-01.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.93]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1WJ5zL-0004Bc-OY from joseph_myers@mentor.com ; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:47:19 -0800 Received: from SVR-IES-FEM-02.mgc.mentorg.com ([137.202.0.106]) by svr-orw-fem-01.mgc.mentorg.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:47:19 -0800 Received: from digraph.polyomino.org.uk (137.202.0.76) by SVR-IES-FEM-02.mgc.mentorg.com (137.202.0.106) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.2.247.3; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:47:18 +0000 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WJ5zJ-0008RM-CS; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:47:17 +0000 Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:47:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" To: Joel Brobecker CC: , , Subject: Re: copyright dates in binutils (and includes/) In-Reply-To: <20140227132551.GO4348@adacore.com> Message-ID: References: <20140227045011.GC14922@bubble.grove.modra.org> <20140227132551.GO4348@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-SW-Source: 2014-02/txt/msg00834.txt.bz2 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