From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 08:50:48 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: maint: describe coreutils' policy on copyright year number ranges
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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.
---

diff --git a/README b/README
index 3ecafc362b..040c7e5ecc 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.