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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2010-10-09 15:25:04 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2010-10-09 15:25:04 +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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@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ See file `NEWS' for a list of major changes in the current release.
See file `THANKS' for a list of contributors.
See file `TODO' for planned enhancements.
+For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package
+note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.
+
Mail suggestions and bug reports for these programs to
<bug-idutils@gnu.org>.