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authorCarlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org>2011-10-20 17:46:24 -0400
committerCarlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org>2011-10-20 18:00:20 -0400
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Document copyright year range notation in README.
The FSF now allows year range notation for copyright years. See `6.5 Copyright Notices' from: http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html We comply with the FSF requirements for the use of range notation by documenting the usage in our README.
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The GNU C Library is free software. See the file COPYING.LIB for copying
conditions, and LICENSES for notices about a few contributions that require
-these additional notices to be distributed.
+these additional notices to be distributed. License copyright years may be
+listed using range notation, e.g., 2000-2011, indicating that every year in
+the range, inclusive, is a copyrightable year that would otherwise be listed
+individually.