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Copyright years (was Re: help/version patches)
- From: "Chris January" <chris at atomice dot net>
- To: <cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:05:33 -0000
- Subject: Copyright years (was Re: help/version patches)
- References: <20020227045945.5521.qmail@web20009.mail.yahoo.com>
> - Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Red Hat, Inc.
> + Copyright 1998-2002 Red Hat, Inc.
A quick note about changing Copyright years like this... don't do it! The
two are *not* equivalent.
See http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain_8.html on the GNU website for more
information, but basically if a new release of Cygwin was tagged in CVS in
any of those years, it should appear as a separate year in a comma separated
list. Ranges are only allowed if development was carried out in that range
of years, but a version was completed for release only in the final year of
the range.
Regards
Chris