2010/3/6 Jim Meyering <[email protected]>: > Reuben Thomas wrote: >> I attach a patch for grep.1 and grep.texi which improves the discussion of >> PCRE. > > Thanks. Applied, as below. > In the future, please include full git format-patch output, > or send with git send-email, including a > ChangeLog-style-with-discussion-when-appropriate commit log. > >> I notice that grep.texi now uses year ranges in its copyright notice. >> I am confused, because I thought this was discouraged. Has thinking >> changed on this? > > I've always seen obvious value in using ranges, and decreased value > in writing them out. Arguments to the contrary? I could try claiming > amnesia or even Alzheimer's ;-)
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Notices "Do not abbreviate the year list using a range; for instance, do not write ‘1996--1998’; instead, write ‘1996, 1997, 1998’." -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
