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Re: Copyright years for new old ports (Re: Ping^6: contribute Synopsys Designware ARC port)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Joern Rennecke <joern dot rennecke at embecosm dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 21:10:16 +0000
- Subject: Re: Copyright years for new old ports (Re: Ping^6: contribute Synopsys Designware ARC port)
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On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Joern Rennecke wrote:
> From my understanding, the condition for adding the current Copyright year
> without a source code change is to have a release in that year. Are we
> sure 4.9.0 will be released this year?
"release" here includes availability of a development version in public
version control, as well as snapshots and non-FSF releases. The effect is
that if the first copyright year in a GCC source file is 1987 or later, a
single range <year>-2013 can be used.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com