Copyright years for new old ports (Re: Ping^6: contribute Synopsys Designware ARC port)

[Robert Dewar]

On 10/3/2013 5:10 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> 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.
>

Just as a FYI, for the GNAT front end we have always used
year ranges, but we only update the year if we actually
modify a file.