Do not use date ranges in copyright notices.

See http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Notices

* HACKING, Makefile.am, NEWS, PACKAGING, README, README-alpha:
* TODO, bootstrap, bootstrap.conf:
* build-aux/update-b4-copyright, cfg.mk, configure.ac:
* data/README, data/bison.m4, data/c++-skel.m4, data/c++.m4:
* data/c-skel.m4, data/c.m4, data/glr.c, data/glr.cc:
* data/java-skel.m4, data/java.m4, data/lalr1.cc:
* data/lalr1.java, data/location.cc:
* data/xslt/bison.xsl:
* data/xslt/xml2dot.xsl, data/xslt/xml2text.xsl:
* data/xslt/xml2xhtml.xsl, data/yacc.c, djgpp/Makefile.maint:
* djgpp/README.in, djgpp/config.bat, djgpp/config.sed:
* djgpp/config.site, djgpp/config_h.sed, djgpp/djunpack.bat:
* djgpp/subpipe.c, djgpp/subpipe.h:
* djgpp/testsuite.sed, doc/bison.texinfo:
* doc/refcard.tex, etc/README, etc/bench.pl.in:
* examples/calc++/Makefile.am, examples/extexi:
* lib/abitset.c, lib/abitset.h:
* lib/bbitset.h, lib/bitset.c, lib/bitset.h:
* lib/bitset_stats.c, lib/bitset_stats.h, lib/bitsetv-print.c:
* lib/bitsetv-print.h, lib/bitsetv.c, lib/bitsetv.h:
* lib/ebitset.c, lib/ebitset.h, lib/get-errno.c:
* lib/get-errno.h, lib/lbitset.c, lib/lbitset.h:
* lib/libiberty.h, lib/main.c, lib/timevar.c:
* lib/timevar.def, lib/timevar.h, lib/vbitset.c:
* lib/vbitset.h, lib/yyerror.c, m4/bison-i18n.m4:
* m4/c-working.m4, m4/cxx.m4, m4/subpipe.m4, m4/timevar.m4:
* src/AnnotationList.c, src/AnnotationList.h:
* src/InadequacyList.c, src/InadequacyList.h, src/LR0.c:
* src/LR0.h, src/Sbitset.c, src/Sbitset.h, src/assoc.c:
* src/assoc.h, src/closure.c, src/closure.h, src/complain.c:
* src/complain.h, src/conflicts.c, src/conflicts.h:
* src/derives.c, src/derives.h, src/files.c, src/files.h:
* src/flex-scanner.h, src/getargs.c, src/getargs.h:
* src/gram.c, src/gram.h, src/graphviz.c, src/ielr.c:
* src/ielr.h, src/lalr.c, src/lalr.h:
* src/location.c, src/location.h, src/main.c:
* src/muscle-tab.c, src/muscle-tab.h, src/named-ref.c:
* src/named-ref.h, src/nullable.c, src/nullable.h:
* src/output.c, src/output.h, src/parse-gram.y:
* src/print-xml.c, src/print-xml.h, src/print.c, src/print.h:
* src/print_graph.c, src/print_graph.h, src/reader.c:
* src/reader.h, src/reduce.c, src/reduce.h, src/relation.c:
* src/relation.h, src/scan-code.h, src/scan-code.l:
* src/scan-gram.h, src/scan-gram.l, src/scan-skel.h:
* src/scan-skel.l, src/state.c, src/state.h, src/symlist.c:
* src/symlist.h, src/symtab.c, src/symtab.h, src/system.h:
* src/tables.c, src/tables.h, src/uniqstr.c, src/uniqstr.h:
* tests/actions.at, tests/atlocal.in, tests/c++.at:
* tests/calc.at, tests/conflicts.at, tests/cxx-type.at:
* tests/existing.at, tests/glr-regression.at:
* tests/headers.at, tests/input.at, tests/java.at:
* tests/local.at, tests/named-refs.at:
* tests/output.at, tests/push.at, tests/reduce.at:
* tests/regression.at, tests/sets.at, tests/skeletons.at:
* tests/synclines.at, tests/testsuite.at, tests/torture.at:
* data/Makefile.am, data/location.cc, doc/Makefile.am, src/Makefile.am:
* tests/Makefile.am, lib/Makefile.am, examples/Makefile.am:
* etc/Makefile.am:
Don't use date ranges in copyright notices.

Copyright (C) 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996,
1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007,
2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/build-aux/update-b4-copyright b/build-aux/update-b4-copyright
index 689daad6..63a33359 100755
--- a/build-aux/update-b4-copyright
+++ b/build-aux/update-b4-copyright
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # Update b4_copyright invocations or b4_copyright_years definitions to
 # include the current year.
 
-# Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-#
+# Copyright (C) 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 # the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
@@ -73,19 +73,10 @@ while (/($old_re)/gx)
         # Put spaces after commas.
         $year_lines =~ s/, ?/, /g;
 
-        # Compress to intervals.
-        $year_lines =~
-          s/
-            (\d{4})
-            (?:
-              (,\ |-)
-              ((??{
-                if    ($2 eq '-') { '\d{4}'; }
-                elsif (!$3)       { $1 + 1;  }
-                else              { $3 + 1;  }
-              }))
-            )+
-          /$1-$3/gx;
+        # Do not compress to intervals; for example, do not replace
+        # "2008, 2009, 2010" with "2008-2010".  See the Copyright
+        # Notices section in Information for Maintainers of GNU Software, at:
+        # http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Notices
 
         # Format within margin.
         my $year_lines_new;