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Re: [PATCH] memset: also update copyright years
On 04/09/2012 10:32 AM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> It's not clear to *me* from the GNU coding standard when it is correct
> and not correct to collapse the years.
>
> I think that the piece of missing text is that which was provided by
> Karl Berry in his email:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-standards/2012-02/msg00003.html
Sorry, I'm still confused about what it is you find confusing. :-)
By "collapse the years" do you mean using a range like 2009-2012
rather than a list like 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012? In that case, maintain.texi
says this:
You can use a range (@samp{2008-2010}) instead of listing individual
years (@samp{2008, 2009, 2010}) if and only if: 1)@tie{}every year in
the range, inclusive, really is a ``copyrightable'' year that would be
listed individually; @emph{and} 2)@tie{}you make an explicit statement
in a @file{README} file about this usage.
Is the confusion about what is meant by a "copyrightable" year?
That topic is discussed in an earlier paragraph, though the phrase
"copyrightable year" isn't used -- is that where the confusion comes from?
Sorry to be so slow and dense about this, but legalisms are that way
sometimes. I do want to improve the wording to make it clearer.