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Re: [rfa] Add a name field to ``struct floatformat''


  In message <200005301856.OAA10673@envy.delorie.com>you write:
  > 
  > > : !    Copyright (C) 1991, 1994, 1999-2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  > > 
  > > I believe that the FSF lawyer has said that we should avoid date
  > > ranges in copyright statements, since it may not be clear if the range
  > > is inclusive, exclusive or somehting else.  Instead, each year should
  > > be specified explicitly.
  > 
  > I've heard this also; apparently a year range isn't legal.  Only a
  > list of years are legal.  More info in the GNU maintainer's manual
  > (although this point isn't mentioned) or at this url in particular:
More correctly, there's questions about its legality.  Thus using ranges
is considered inappropriate for FSF code.  I had to go through all of the
gcc sources and fix them.  Ugh.

jeff


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