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author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2010-10-05 10:50:48 +0200 |
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committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2010-10-06 00:38:25 +0200 |
commit | 61d1c5cb3ca1d61418686d5c6f209d288e68549f (patch) | |
tree | 7c5dc92001732088d1a3c358a09187c666be6f32 /README | |
parent | 2f41f563d1b827bdc0ab87b6f2ef1cbd4e2decef (diff) | |
download | coreutils-61d1c5cb3ca1d61418686d5c6f209d288e68549f.tar.xz |
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. |