From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFC: one more question about year ranges in copyright notices...
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120127054738.GA28443@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120106062310.GH2730@adacore.com>
Hello again,
> Thanks a lot to all of you who answered. Very helpful. As usual
> when it comes to legal matters, I did not have a clear understanding
> of the all the ramifications. I have therefore sent the question
> to the FSF copyright clerk email address.
>
> One small clarification: The proposed change will simply shrink
> the copyright years into a single range, but it will not change
> the initial year recorded in each file. If that initial year is
> mistaken (in either direction), fixing that would need to be done
> on an individual basis after review.
I just got an answer from the FSF (case [gnu.org #719834]), and
it is fine to shrink the copyright year list into a single range,
even if there are "holes" in the original year list.
I will put this on my list of things to do sometime next month
(which ironically is in a few days - where does time go?).
--
Joel
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-27 5:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-04 9:47 Joel Brobecker
2012-01-04 16:10 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-04 16:19 ` Stan Shebs
2012-01-04 16:43 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-04 16:55 ` Pedro Alves
2012-01-04 17:17 ` Joseph S. Myers
2012-01-04 17:38 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-01-04 17:28 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-01-06 6:23 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-27 9:23 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
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