While updating GNU Time, I noticed that "Information for Maintainers of GNU Software" says this text should be included in the README if copyright year ranges are used [1].
Collin [1] https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Notices
>From 0f7cf1c9781e66f444d570b11eebbba64fb6d214 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 Message-ID: <0f7cf1c9781e66f444d570b11eebbba64fb6d214.1768675881.git.collin.fu...@gmail.com> From: Collin Funk <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2026 10:48:07 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] maint: add a note about copyright year ranges * README: Describe copyright year ranges as required in "Information for Maintainers of GNU Software". --- README | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 09711d2..cea56e5 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -71,4 +71,7 @@ D.M. Ritchie. The GNU implementation is substantially more complex, in order to be a canonical example of a GNU package. Many people have contributed; please see the AUTHORS and ChangeLog files. +For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package +note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval. + GNU Hello is free software. See the file COPYING for copying conditions. -- 2.52.0
