From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30747 invoked by alias); 3 Jan 2012 04:24:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 30721 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Jan 2012 04:24:55 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 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; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:24:41 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EE1E2BAB20 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 23:24:40 -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 VefFTJNcyIez for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 23:24:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 086A22BAB10 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 23:24:40 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B341E145615; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 08:24:31 +0400 (RET) Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:24:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: RFA: Using year ranges in copyright notices... Message-ID: <20120103042431.GI2730@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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/msg00077.txt.bz2 Hello, A bit of a trivial question, but I wanted to be sure it's OK to do so. I would like us to use address ranges in our copyright headers, instead of explicitly listing each and every year. One striking example would be valprint.c: - Copyright (C) 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, - 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, - 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 1986, 1988-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Here is how it would look like for typeprint.h, for instance: - Copyright (C) 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991-1993, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2008, 2009, - 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 1986, 1988-1989, 1991-1993, 1999-2000, 2007-2012 Free + Software Foundation, Inc. Any objection? A quick answer would be appreciated, as I am planning on folding this change with the copyright year update commit. Committing this massive change takes a lot of time, so I'd rather only have to do one of them. Thanks, -- Joel