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Re: RFA: Using year ranges in copyright notices...


   > A bit of a trivial question, but I wanted to be sure it's OK to do so.
   > I would like us to use address ranges in our copyright headers, instead
   > of explicitly listing each and every year.

   This needs to be cleared with lawyers @gnu.org.  At least at some
   point, Richard explicitly asked _not_ to use ranges, due to some
   legal issues, and I don't think I saw that restriction lifted since
   then.

   At the very least, we should ask Richard about that.

It is documented in (maintain) Copyright Notices:

|    You can use a range (`2008-2010') instead of listing individual
| years (`2008, 2009, 2010') if and only if: 1) every year in the range,
| inclusive, really is a "copyrightable" year that would be listed
| individually; _and_ 2) you make an explicit statement in a `README'
| file about this usage.


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