From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 13:25:21 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: maint: describe policy on copyright year number ranges
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maint: describe policy on copyright year number ranges

* README: Mention coreutils' long-standing policy on use of M-N
ranges in copyright year lists.  Requested by Richard Stallman.
---

diff --git a/README b/README
index bf1ac9e..a71659d 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -124,6 +124,9 @@ team. zip and unzip are not associated with the GNU project.
 See http://info-zip.org/ for more about zip and unzip.
 
 
+For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package
+note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.
+
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