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Re: Copyright years (was Re: help/version patches)
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:11:11PM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
>"Chris January" <chris@atomice.net> writes:
>
>> Since when have common sense and the law gone together.
>
>Hmm, that's a good point. I think there was some logic to what I
>said, but that may well be irrelevant.
>
>> I would point out that the GCC team have recently changed all their
>> copyrights from the incorrect range format to a list of years
>> because this is simply the right thing to do from a legal point of
>> view. (see http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-01/msg01192.html).
>
>Ok, thanks for pointing that out.
FWIW, Chris is correct. We need to keep the comma separated list.
cgf