Since I've used copyright year ranges in this project, I've just pushed this to make it clear that no information has been lost:
>From b90fc3e5c6739018f27419c1b5c2839031adacf0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:23:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] maint: describe policy on copyright year number ranges * README: Mention coreutils' long-standing policy on use of M-N ranges in copyright year lists. Requested by Richard Stallman. --- README | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 61ca8bb..71546c3 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -52,3 +52,6 @@ Additional bug reports can be found at: You can also browse the bug-grep mailing list archive at: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/ + +For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package +note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval. -- 1.7.3.1.104.gc752e
