Re: gengtype: emit a more appropriate copyright year in generated files.

[Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>]

On 1/5/2011 10:54 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Laurynas Biveinis wrote:
>
> > IIRC even a patch to shorten "1994, 1995, 1996, 1997" to "1994--1997"
> > etc. was rejected for some reason.
>
> GNU policy was only recently amended to allow ranges, and only if there is
> a special statement in the package's README saying what they mean.  If we
> wish to use them then we should change all of GCC at once (and maybe
> change to update all files at the start of the year - also permitted by
> GNU policy - so updates don't need remembering at any other time).

I really think ranges are far better. I have never understood the GNU
policy here. Since all major corporations such as Apple, Microsoft,
IBM and many others routinely use ranges, are we really supposed to
think that GNU knows better than all these other companies?? :-)