From b64f0d8b85c65749d587fc95a123dc450c5b50ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:25:21 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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. --- README | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) 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. + ======================================================================== Copyright (C) 1999, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 Free Software -- 2.47.2