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Re: [rfa] Add a name field to ``struct floatformat''
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: [rfa] Add a name field to ``struct floatformat''
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 08:45:42 +1000
- CC: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>, nickc 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
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Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
> 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.
An guess who gets to fix all the GDB code (when I'd just ``fixed it'').
Andew