From 3c36c0af46fc19b5c61cfb6a0eea8722f2d14818 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joel Brobecker Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 04:11:38 +0000 Subject: [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. --- gdb/README | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) (limited to 'gdb/README') diff --git a/gdb/README b/gdb/README index d79fecc..999f992 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: -- cgit v1.1