Dear developers,
I downloaded bash-4.1 source code today and found the following content in
bash.0, bash.1 and bash.html, which are in directory doc:
Bash is Copyright (C) 1989-2009 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Format "1989-2009" is in contradiction with the "Information for Maintainers of
GNU Software", section "Copyright Notices" [1]:
A copyright notice looks like this:
Copyright (C) year1, year2, year3 copyright-holder
And:
You can use a range (‘2008-2010’) instead of listing individual years
(‘2008, 2009, 2010’) if and only if: 1) every year in the range, inclusive,
really is a “copyrightable” year that would be listed individually; and 2)
you make an explicit statement in a ‘README’ file about this usage.
I did not find such a statement in the README file.
[1]
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html#Copyright-Notices
Please fix this.
Christophe
