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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2010-10-09 15:23:53 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2010-10-09 15:23:53 +0200
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maint: describe policy on copyright year number ranges
* README: Mention coreutils' long-standing policy on use of M-N ranges in copyright year lists. Requested by Richard Stallman.
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@@ -52,3 +52,6 @@ Additional bug reports can be found at:
You can also browse the bug-grep mailing list archive at:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/
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+For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package
+note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.