Re: Copyright years in gfortran.info.

[Toon Moene <toon at moene dot org>]

On 06/05/2010 04:45 PM, Steve Kargl wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 02:34:33PM +0200, Toon Moene wrote:

> > RMS wrote the Steering Committee mailing list that Christophe Jarry
> > pointed out to him that the copyright years in gfortran.texi have the
> > wrong format (among other mistakes):
> >
> >    -'gfortran.info' is copyrighted by the FSF '1999-2008', although it
> > should be under the form '1999, 2000, [other years], 2008';
> >
> > If someone happens to edit this file, could s/he change this too.
> >
> > If noone works on this file I'll do it.

> Let me see if I got the chain straight:
> Christophe ->  rms ->  gcc SC (gerald, toon) ->  fortran@
> and no one in that chain is capable of attaching
> a one line patch and ChangeLog entry.  The mind boogles.
> Toon please tell the SC to tell rms to tell Christophe
> to submit a patch for review.

Well, Christophe only detected that it wasn't in the right format.  If I 
understand the (copyright) issues correctly, the years that have to be 
mentioned on the 'Copyrighted' line are the years we actually changed 
something to this file.

This might take some digging to get right ...

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