From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8050 invoked by alias); 2 Jul 2012 14:17:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 8035 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Jul 2012 14:17:50 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from relay1.mentorg.com (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:17:32 +0000 Received: from svr-orw-exc-10.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.58]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1SlhRQ-0006p9-By from joseph_myers@mentor.com ; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 07:17:28 -0700 Received: from SVR-IES-FEM-01.mgc.mentorg.com ([137.202.0.104]) by SVR-ORW-EXC-10.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Mon, 2 Jul 2012 07:16:40 -0700 Received: from digraph.polyomino.org.uk (137.202.0.76) by SVR-IES-FEM-01.mgc.mentorg.com (137.202.0.104) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.289.1; Mon, 2 Jul 2012 15:17:26 +0100 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SlhRN-0005kU-JA; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:17:25 +0000 Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:17:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" To: Robert Dewar CC: Alexandre Oliva , David Edelsohn , , Subject: Re: Allow use of ranges in copyright notices In-Reply-To: <4FF1A55F.1030701@adacore.com> Message-ID: References: <4FF1A55F.1030701@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2012-07/txt/msg00033.txt.bz2 On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Robert Dewar wrote: > On 7/2/2012 8:35 AM, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > On Jun 30, 2012, David Edelsohn wrote: > > > > > IBM's policy specifies a comma: > > > > > , > > > > > and not a dash range. > > > > But this notation already means something else in our source tree. > > I think using the dash is preferable, and is a VERY widely used > notation, used by all major software companies I deal with! And as a GNU project there isn't a choice between using IBM convention and GNU convention - only about which of the GNU options we use. The simplest is -2012 (for any value of 1987 or later) and so I am proposing we move to that (make this change to README to allow it, allow converting files when 2012 is added to the copyright years, as is now done in glibc, allow a bulk conversion if anyone wishes to do one). -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com