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Re: RFA: Using year ranges in copyright notices...
- From: ams at gnu dot org (Alfred M. Szmidt)
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: brobecker at adacore dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:58:00 -0500
- Subject: Re: RFA: Using year ranges in copyright notices...
- References: <20120103042431.GI2730@adacore.com> <E1Rhxs0-00008Y-05@fencepost.gnu.org>
- Reply-to: ams at gnu dot org
> A bit of a trivial question, but I wanted to be sure it's OK to do so.
> I would like us to use address ranges in our copyright headers, instead
> of explicitly listing each and every year.
This needs to be cleared with lawyers @gnu.org. At least at some
point, Richard explicitly asked _not_ to use ranges, due to some
legal issues, and I don't think I saw that restriction lifted since
then.
At the very least, we should ask Richard about that.
It is documented in (maintain) Copyright Notices:
| You can use a range (`2008-2010') instead of listing individual
| years (`2008, 2009, 2010') if and only if: 1) every year in the range,
| inclusive, really is a "copyrightable" year that would be listed
| individually; _and_ 2) you make an explicit statement in a `README'
| file about this usage.