From 627145fd6a327c1bce89bf7a0c37da42a7393ecb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carlos O'Donell Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:46:24 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] 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. --- ChangeLog | 4 ++++ README | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index c076b3669a..f2ebf148a1 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2011-10-20 Carlos O'Donell + + * README: Define copyright year range notation. + 2011-10-20 Andreas Schwab [BZ #12892] diff --git a/README b/README index 7c27e3652a..728e7d7da8 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -94,4 +94,7 @@ This web page gives detailed information on how to report bugs properly. 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.