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Re: gengtype: emit a more appropriate copyright year in generated files.
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 03:54:07PM +0000, 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).
Yes, please, let's do this. Can we legitimately convert "1994, 1996,
1998" etc. to "1994--1998"? The policy suggests not, but I don't see
what the issue is in doing so. Restricting it in that way makes doing
the conversion somewhat more tedious.
-Nathan