Document copyright year range notation in README.

The FSF now allows year range notation for copyright years.

See `6.5 Copyright Notices' from:
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html

We comply with the FSF requirements for the use of range
notation by documenting the usage in our README.
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2011-10-20 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@codesourcery.com>
* README: Define copyright year range notation.
2011-10-20 Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>
[BZ #12892]

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The GNU C Library is free software. See the file COPYING.LIB for copying
conditions, and LICENSES for notices about a few contributions that require
these additional notices to be distributed.
these additional notices to be distributed. License copyright years may be
listed using range notation, e.g., 2000-2011, indicating that every year in
the range, inclusive, is a copyrightable year that would otherwise be listed
individually.