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author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2010-10-09 15:24:05 +0200 |
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committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2010-10-09 15:24:05 +0200 |
commit | 9026760882adce9e2a000cb9f64d3b2a2de410cc (patch) | |
tree | 6b93af5b721b0cdd8b6a536d9124da80d1e9cc60 | |
parent | 361b3b13da25366256745b7cce4ff71231ef24e9 (diff) | |
download | diffutils-9026760882adce9e2a000cb9f64d3b2a2de410cc.tar.gz |
maint: describe policy on copyright year number ranges
* README: Mention coreutils' long-standing policy on use of M-N
ranges in copyright year lists. Requested by Richard Stallman.
-rw-r--r-- | README | 21 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 12 deletions
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ this distribution: * help2man 1.33 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/help2man-1.33.1.tar.gz> * Texinfo 4.7 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.7.tar.gz> +For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package +note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval. + Please report bugs to <bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>. ----- @@ -53,15 +56,9 @@ Inc. This file is part of GNU Diffutils. -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 of the License, or -(at your option) any later version. - -This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, -but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of -MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the -GNU General Public License for more details. - -You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License -along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. +Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no +Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover +Texts. A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free +Documentation License'' file as part of this distribution. |