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Re: [rfa] Add a name field to ``struct floatformat''
- To: nickc at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: [rfa] Add a name field to ``struct floatformat''
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 14:56:34 -0400
- CC: ac131313 at cygnus dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <200005301844.LAA06548@elmo.cygnus.com>
> : ! 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:
http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/GNU/maintain_4.html