From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geoff Keating To: RDBrown@mira.net, RodneyBrown@mynd.com Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org Subject: Re: Preferred format of Copyright statement Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:14:00 -0000 Message-id: <200008151714.KAA08521@localhost.cygnus.com> References: <200008151314.XAA00259@iji.local> X-SW-Source: 2000-08/msg00076.html > From: Rodney Brown > Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 23:14:51 +1000 (EST) > Copyright 1990, 91, 92, 93, 94, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > This form would allow ~ 9 year numbers in the list before needing to > wrap to two lines as compared with ~ 6 for the 4-digit year form implied > by the FSF Information for Maintainers page. > GDB has at least one file with a list of 13 years. > > According to section 2.7 of the Copyright-FAQ, it would be a > valid (US) Copyright notice (IMO - which has No legal worth) > < ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/law/Copyright-FAQ/part2 > > > Does this form meet the FSF need for squeaky clean legalities? No. The FSF asks for full 4-digit years. The statement above should be: Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. I know this has a tendency to line-wrap, but so what? No human will ever care. So we might as well make it completely correct. -- - Geoffrey Keating