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authorStefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>2012-04-28 09:29:34 +0200
committerStefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>2012-04-28 09:29:34 +0200
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readme: explicitly state we use ranges in copyright years
Reported by Jack Kelly in automake bug#11356. * README: Explicitly state we use ranges in copyright years; this is mandated by the GNU Coding Standards for each package that wants to actually use ranges in copyright years. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
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@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ New releases are announced to autotools-announce@gnu.org. If you want to
be informed, subscribe to that list by following the instructions at
<http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autotools-announce>.
+For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package,
+that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.
+
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Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.