[patch RFC] cpp macro surgery

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:

| Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com> writes:
| 
| > supposedly we are supposed to use the long version, with each year.
| > 
| > > 	// Copyright (C) 1997-2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
| > 
| > so no, this is not the way it's supposed to be. I'm slowly changing the 
| > files I touch .
| 
| I'm not doing this.  The xxxx-yyyy form is used everywhere.  Just look
| at printed media.  And these people definitely had lawyers looking
| over it.

So in the end?  I, personnaly find the xxxx-yyyy pretty much short and
easy to maintain (yes, that is subjective) but I'm not a lawyer.

-- Gaby
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