Hi, On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:47:04PM +0100, Sebastian Gerhardt wrote: > Hi, > > a maintainer asked me about the reason we give the adive to write > explicit copyright dates--not ranges. Why is it better to do this?
That's what the FSF lawyers recommend http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html "Do not abbreviate the year list using a range; for instance, do not write '1996--1998'; instead, write '1996, 1997, 1998'." The document doesn't justify this recommendation. Maybe Karl knows, otherwise we can ask [email protected], otherwise we can assume that, given that the date of publication is important, specifying each year explicitely allows to specify which years exactly got a release, while a range may hides the fact that there was a year without a release. e.g. 2005-2009 may mean 2005, 2007, 2009 or 2005, 2006, 2009 etc. > He also asked whether it was possible to import the SVN history into > Savannah. Anybody who knows the answer, please write it into > https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?8877 Done. (http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/SvnImportExistingRepo) -- Sylvain
