From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10842 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2012 04:49:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 10833 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jan 2012 04:49:13 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:48:48 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DEDF2BAFC1; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 23:48:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id uTKSR5y1-qnG; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 23:48:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 092962BB0AB; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 23:48:45 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1E8A614561A; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 08:47:52 +0400 (RET) From: Joel Brobecker To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Cc: Joel Brobecker Subject: [7.4/commit 4/5] [README] Add note about copyright and license notices Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:49:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1325825242-14383-5-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <1325825242-14383-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com> References: <1325825242-14383-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com> Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-01/txt/msg00216.txt.bz2 From: Joel Brobecker Also explain the use of year ranges in copyright notices. gdb/ChangeLog: * README (Copyright and License Notices): New section. --- gdb/ChangeLog | 4 ++++ gdb/README | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index dfa36fc..11fbfff 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ 2012-01-06 Joel Brobecker + * README (Copyright and License Notices): New section. + +2012-01-06 Joel Brobecker + * ada-lang.c: Reformat the copyright notice. 2012-01-06 Joel Brobecker diff --git a/gdb/README b/gdb/README index d79fecc..999f992 100644 --- a/gdb/README +++ b/gdb/README @@ -638,6 +638,26 @@ testsuite `standalone', without it being part of the GDB source tree. See the DejaGNU documentation for further details. + +Copyright and License Notices +============================= + +Most files maintained by the GDB Project contain a copyright notice +as well as a license notice, usually at the start of the file. + +To reduce the length of copyright notices, consecutive years in the +copyright notice can be combined into a single range. For instance, +the following list of copyright years... + + 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991-1993, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 + +... is abbreviated into: + + 1986, 1988-1989, 1991-1993, 1999-2000, 2007-2011 + +Every year of each range, inclusive, is a copyrightable year that +could be listed individually. + (this is for editing this file with GNU emacs) Local Variables: -- 1.7.1