Ada Copyright Notice Nit

[Arnaud Charlet]

> > 9drpc.adb:--          Copyright (C) 1992-2009, Free Software
> > Foundation, Inc.         --
> > a-assert.adb:--         Copyright (C) 2007-2009  Free Software
> > Foundation, Inc.          --
> >
> > Are both of these OK?  Should they be changed
> > to be the same?
> >
> > I doubt it makes any legal difference but we
> > are normally picky on formatting in these areas.
> 
> We normally follow the GNU standard for copyright notices, which is
> here:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html
> 
> It says no comma.  It also says do not use a dash between years, but
> instead list all the years individually.  See the main gcc directory
> for a myriad examples.
> 
> My understanding is that none of this makes any legal difference.  I
> think it's more or less up to the Ada maintainers whether they want to
> strictly adhere to the GNU standards or not.

The short answer is that we prefer the current state of things (use of dashes),
and use of a comma after the date, so in the above, 9drpc.adb is "correct"
and a-assert.adb isn't.

Arno