From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14943 invoked by alias); 4 Jan 2012 09:47:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 14864 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Jan 2012 09:47:14 -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; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:47:00 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 083B02BAFAF for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 04:47:00 -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 IJdkY-yD3OwY for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 04:46:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 927412BAFAC for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 04:46:59 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 232E3145615; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 13:46:49 +0400 (RET) Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:47:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: RFC: one more question about year ranges in copyright notices... Message-ID: <20120104094649.GV2730@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/msg00124.txt.bz2 Hello, I thought I was giong to do my best to forget about this as soon as the copyright notices would be updated, but what do you guys think of Jan's remark: > > + 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991-1993, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 > > + > > +... is abbreviated into: > > + > > + 1986, 1988-1989, 1991-1993, 1999-2000, 2007-2011 [...] > IIUC this would allow us to write 1986-2011 everywhere as the GDB > package was nontrivially modified each of these years. Just restating > Joseph. Not totally critical, but I am seduced. I found that the formatting of many copyright headers look a bit ugly before the list of years shown in the notice is long enough that "Free Software Foundation, Inc." would not fit on the rest of the line. WDYT? If people agree, I can put it on my list to do a one-time hack of update-copyright to compress the list into one single range. -- Joel