Re: Happy New Year

[Joel E. Denny]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Joel E. Denny wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Jan 2011, Joel E. Denny wrote:
> 
> > From: Joel E. Denny <address@hidden>
> > Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 08:17:44 -0500
> > Subject: [PATCH 2/3] maint: prepare to use date ranges in copyright notices.
> > 
> > * README (Copyright statements): New section explaining the range
> > notation.  The GNU coding standards require this explanation.  I

Actually, it's the maintainers document not the coding standards.  I fixed 
that by pushing the following to master and branch-2.5.

>From 15fe6bb421f00932e92a1d5bacaf1d4cefa0522d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joel E. Denny <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 18:37:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] * ChangeLog (2011-01-02): improve description.

---
 ChangeLog |   11 ++++++++---
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 72605b2..6d83321 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2011-01-03  Joel E. Denny  <address@hidden>
 
+       * ChangeLog (2011-01-02): improve description.
+
+2011-01-03  Joel E. Denny  <address@hidden>
+
        maint: don't update copyright years in bootstrap.
        * .x-update-copyright: Add entry for bootstrap.
        * bootstrap: Remove 2011 from copyright years.  The bootstrap
@@ -14,10 +18,11 @@
 
 2011-01-02  Joel E. Denny  <address@hidden>
 
-       maint: prepare to use date ranges in copyright notices.
+       maint: prepare to use year ranges in copyright notices.
        * README (Copyright statements): New section explaining the range
-       notation.  The GNU coding standards require this explanation.  I
-       copied ours from coreutils.
+       notation.  The GNU maintainers document requires this explanation:
+       <http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Notices>.
+       I copied our explanation from coreutils.
        * build-aux/update-b4-copyright: Revert 2010-06-17 changes that
        disabled Bison's automated use of ranges.
        * cfg.mk (update-copyright-env): Likewise.
-- 
1.7.0.4