Simplify copyrights using ranges of years.

The new GNU Maintainer's Manual allows the use of year ranges in certain
situations; take advantage of this simplification.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
index ab464601..a6d14545 100644
--- a/main.c
+++ b/main.c
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 /* Argument parsing and main program of GNU Make.
-Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998,
-1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,
-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1988-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 This file is part of GNU Make.
 
 GNU Make is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
@@ -3112,9 +3110,10 @@ print_version (void)
   /* Print this untranslated.  The coding standards recommend translating the
      (C) to the copyright symbol, but this string is going to change every
      year, and none of the rest of it should be translated (including the
-     word "Copyright", so it hardly seems worth it.  */
+     word "Copyright"), so it hardly seems worth it.  */
 
-  printf ("%sCopyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.\n", precede);
+  printf ("%sCopyright (C) 1988-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.\n",
+          precede);
 
   printf (_("%sLicense GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>\n\
 %sThis is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.\n\
@@ -3124,7 +3123,7 @@ print_version (void)
   printed_version = 1;
 
   /* Flush stdout so the user doesn't have to wait to see the
-     version information while things are thought about.  */
+     version information while make thinks about things.  */
   fflush (stdout);
 }