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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2010-10-05 10:50:48 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2010-10-06 00:38:25 +0200
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maint: describe coreutils' 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.
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@@ -223,6 +223,9 @@ For general documentation on the coding and usage standards
this distribution follows, see the GNU Coding Standards,
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html.
+For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package
+note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.
+
Mail suggestions and bug reports for these programs to
the address on the last line of --help output.