Hello Christophe, * Christophe Jarry wrote on Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 12:07:23PM CEST: > I found that the copyright notice of the file doc/libtool.texi does not follow > "Information for Maintainers of GNU Software" at > http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html#Copyright-Notices. > > This documents states: > > Don’t delete old year numbers, though; they are significant since they > indicate when older versions might theoretically go into the public > domain, > if the movie companies don’t continue buying laws to further extend > copyright. If you copy a file into the package from some other program, > keep > the copyright years that come with the file. > > 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 have seen no such "explici statement" in the file README so I send you the > patch for doc/libtool.texi.
I'm sure you would agree that an explicit statement would be more maintainable though, no? Thanks, Ralf > -Copyright (C) 1996-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > +Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, > 2006, > +2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. [...]
