From: Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:54:46 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: README: Explicitly state meaning of year ranges in copyright statements
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README: Explicitly state meaning of year ranges in copyright statements

Year ranges in copyright statements have no legal meaning. That's why we
explicitly state what they mean in README.

For details, see:
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/README b/README
index 01cb874..4aaa878 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -20,6 +20,21 @@ There have been no official tarball releases, yet.
 Distro packagers should NOT package this, yet.
 
 
+Copyright notices
+-----------------
+
+A copyright notice indicating a range of years, must be interpreted as having
+had copyrightable material added in each of those years.
+
+Example:
+
+ Copyright (C) 2010-2013 Contributor Name
+
+is to be interpreted as
+
+ Copyright (C) 2010,2011,2012,2013 Contributor Name
+
+
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