Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Two question which I have to pass on

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:47:04PM +0100, Sebastian Gerhardt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> a maintainer asked me about the reason we give the adive to write
> explicit copyright dates--not ranges. Why is it better to do this?

That's what the FSF lawyers recommend
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html

"Do not abbreviate the year list using a range; for instance, do not
 write '1996--1998'; instead, write '1996, 1997, 1998'."

The document doesn't justify this recommendation.  Maybe Karl knows,
otherwise we can ask address@hidden, otherwise we can assume that,
given that the date of publication is important, specifying each year
explicitely allows to specify which years exactly got a release, while
a range may hides the fact that there was a year without a release.
e.g. 2005-2009 may mean 2005, 2007, 2009
                     or 2005, 2006, 2009
                     etc.

> He also asked whether it was possible to import the SVN history into
> Savannah. Anybody who knows the answer, please write it into
> https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?8877

Done.
(http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/SvnImportExistingRepo)

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Sylvain