Charles Levert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * On Thursday 2005-11-17 at 13:16:10 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> /* Change this as needed */
>> enum { COPYRIGHT_YEAR = 2005 };
>
> We were having this discussion about copyright
> years a few days ago. Does this mean it's
> ok to keep only the last year, and just omit
> earlier ones?
>
> According to
>
> <http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/>
> Information For Maintainers of GNU Software
> 4.4 Copyright Notices
>
> "The list of year numbers should include
> each year in which you finished
> preparing a version which was actually
> released, and which was an ancestor of
> the current version."
That's for copyright notices in source code. But we're talking about
the output of --version; that's a different matter. For --version
it's OK to mention only the last year.
