[coreutils] [PATCH] maint: describe coreutils' policy on copyright year number ranges

[Jim Meyering]

FYI, I'll push this soon:

>From deb483e6498e32a8174e0fdd9d39d53241fe5aef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:50:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] maint: describe coreutils' 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.
---
 README |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 3ecafc3..040c7e5 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -223,6 +223,9 @@ For general documentation on the coding and usage standards
 this distribution follows, see the GNU Coding Standards,
 http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html.

+For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package
+note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.
+
 Mail suggestions and bug reports for these programs to
 the address on the last line of --help output.

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