www/licenses gpl-howto.html

[Brett Smith]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Brett Smith <brett>     11/02/14 22:04:41

Modified files:
        licenses       : gpl-howto.html 

Log message:
        Make year range recommendation basically match what we tell GNU 
maintainers.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/licenses/gpl-howto.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.32&r2=1.33

Patches:
Index: gpl-howto.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/licenses/gpl-howto.html,v
retrieving revision 1.32
retrieving revision 1.33
diff -u -b -r1.32 -r1.33
--- gpl-howto.html      15 Jul 2010 15:42:45 -0000      1.32
+++ gpl-howto.html      14 Feb 2011 22:04:31 -0000      1.33
@@ -35,9 +35,12 @@
 versions were finished in 1998 and some were finished in 1999.  If
 several people helped write the code, use all their names.</p>
 
-<p>For software with several releases over multiple years, it is best to
-spell out each year, in full, without using ranges or abbreviations, as
-in the example above.</p>
+<p>For software with several releases over multiple years, it's okay
+to use a range (&ldquo;2008-2010&rdquo;) instead of listing individual
+years (&ldquo;2008, 2009, 2010&rdquo;) if and only if every year in
+the range, inclusive, really is a &ldquo;copyrightable&rdquo; year
+that would be listed individually; <em>and</em> you make an explicit
+statement in your documentation about this usage.</p>
 
 <p>Always use the English word &ldquo;Copyright&rdquo;; by international
 convention, this is used worldwide, even for material in other
@@ -211,7 +214,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2010/07/15 15:42:45 $
+$Date: 2011/02/14 22:04:31 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>