From 146469432ed02b09915e42f3fcd66be0a1fcb2f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexandru Gagniuc Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:54:46 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] README: Explicitly state meaning of year ranges in copyright statements Year ranges in copyright statements have no legal meaning. That's why we explicitly state what they mean in README. For details, see: http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gagniuc --- README | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 01cb8743..4aaa8780 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -20,6 +20,21 @@ There have been no official tarball releases, yet. Distro packagers should NOT package this, yet. +Copyright notices +----------------- + +A copyright notice indicating a range of years, must be interpreted as having +had copyrightable material added in each of those years. + +Example: + + Copyright (C) 2010-2013 Contributor Name + +is to be interpreted as + + Copyright (C) 2010,2011,2012,2013 Contributor Name + + Mailing lists ------------- -- 2.30.2