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Re: Allow use of ranges in copyright notices
- From: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
- To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Cc: David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:42:55 -0400
- Subject: Re: Allow use of ranges in copyright notices
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1206301449240.28133@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <CAGWvny=CjjKyURf9ngxPHsjZswFV2B=kJ__W6465uLmCzgEUgA@mail.gmail.com> <ory5n2l4rv.fsf@livre.localdomain>
On 7/2/2012 8:35 AM, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Jun 30, 2012, David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
IBM's policy specifies a comma:
<first year>, <last year>
and not a dash range.
But this notation already means something else in our source tree.
I think using the dash is preferable, and is a VERY widely used
notation, used by all major software companies I deal with!