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| author | Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com> | 2012-01-04 04:11:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com> | 2012-01-04 04:11:38 +0000 |
| commit | 3c36c0af46fc19b5c61cfb6a0eea8722f2d14818 (patch) | |
| tree | 7ed5e44b94c7cb53df817fb34023c80cdbdbc00f /gdb | |
| parent | dd74ae067124f200158633dd96bea9900f5d55c9 (diff) | |
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[README] Add note about copyright and license notices
Also explain the use of year ranges in copyright notices.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* README (Copyright and License Notices): New section.
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diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index 266f3877e8..b68d64c04d 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2012-01-04 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> + + * README (Copyright and License Notices): New section. + 2012-01-03 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> PR python/12533: diff --git a/gdb/README b/gdb/README index d79fecc1cd..999f9927f6 100644 --- a/gdb/README +++ b/gdb/README @@ -638,6 +638,26 @@ testsuite `standalone', without it being part of the GDB source tree. See the DejaGNU documentation for further details. + +Copyright and License Notices +============================= + +Most files maintained by the GDB Project contain a copyright notice +as well as a license notice, usually at the start of the file. + +To reduce the length of copyright notices, consecutive years in the +copyright notice can be combined into a single range. For instance, +the following list of copyright years... + + 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991-1993, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 + +... is abbreviated into: + + 1986, 1988-1989, 1991-1993, 1999-2000, 2007-2011 + +Every year of each range, inclusive, is a copyrightable year that +could be listed individually. + (this is for editing this file with GNU emacs) Local Variables: |
