On 04/28/2012 12:36 AM, Jack Kelly wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: >> On 04/27/2012 03:18 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> On 04/27/2012 05:30 AM, Peter Johansson wrote: >>> +++ b/aclocal.in >>> @@ -840,9 +840,8 @@ $output"; >>> # name in the header. >>> $output = "# generated automatically by aclocal $VERSION -*- Autoconf -*- >>> >>> -# Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, >>> -# 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, >>> -# Inc. >>> +# Copyright (C) 1996-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >> >> This makes sense, > > This took me by surprise, because it wasn't the case previously. It is > now acceptable usage according to GNU standards, see > http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6576 and > http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html > > """" > 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. > """ > > I suggest you update README to follow the guidelines. > Good catch, I wasn't aware of such a requirement.
> The guidelines > don't say what exactly should be in the notice, but I presume it's a > statement to the effect that 1) above holds. > I think I'll steal the wording from coreutils' README: For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval. Patch coming up tomorrow (unless someone beats me ;-) Regards, Stefano
