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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2010-10-09 15:24:48 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2010-10-10 19:07:45 +0200
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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.
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* send bug reports, requests for help, feature requests, comments, etc. to
bug-parted@gnu.org.
+For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package
+note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.
+
NOTE TO DISTRIBUTIONS
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