copyright years

Roland McGrath <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:16:43 -0400 (EDT)

Newsgroups	gmane.os.hurd.devel.readers
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Never shorten years to a range X-Y, always use a comma-separated list.
It is ok to abbreviate years to two digits to keep them shorter,
i.e.

bad:

#   Copyright (C) 1993-1999,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

good:

#   Copyright (C) 1993,94,95,96,97,98,99,2001,02 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

I know everybody else does it.  But a long time ago RMS told me his lawyer
said to do the latter and not the former.