Joel Sherrill <joel.sherr...@oarcorp.com> writes: > In checking my local changes, I noticed a minor > difference in how the Ada source files have their > Copyright notice. Some have a comma between the > years and party, others do not. > > 9drpc.adb:-- Copyright (C) 1992-2009, Free Software > Foundation, Inc. -- > a-assert.adb:-- Copyright (C) 2007-2009 Free Software > Foundation, Inc. -- > > Are both of these OK? Should they be changed > to be the same? > > I doubt it makes any legal difference but we > are normally picky on formatting in these areas.
We normally follow the GNU standard for copyright notices, which is here: http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html It says no comma. It also says do not use a dash between years, but instead list all the years individually. See the main gcc directory for a myriad examples. My understanding is that none of this makes any legal difference. I think it's more or less up to the Ada maintainers whether they want to strictly adhere to the GNU standards or not. Ian
