Re: What is GNU's policy regarding %format strings and gettext()?

[Paul Eggert]

Charles Levert <address@hidden> writes:

> * On Thursday 2005-11-17 at 13:16:10 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> /* Change this as needed */
>> enum { COPYRIGHT_YEAR = 2005 };
>
> We were having this discussion about copyright
> years a few days ago.  Does this mean it's
> ok to keep only the last year, and just omit
> earlier ones?
>
> According to
>
>    <http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/>
>    Information For Maintainers of GNU Software
>       4.4  Copyright Notices
>
>         "The list of year numbers should include
>          each year in which you finished
>          preparing a version which was actually
>          released, and which was an ancestor of
>          the current version."

That's for copyright notices in source code.  But we're talking about
the output of --version; that's a different matter.  For --version
it's OK to mention only the last year.