From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposed patches Date: 25 Feb 2004 15:50:06 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87vflwhylv.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <1077691165.6554.1.camel@duende> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077691963 14121 80.91.224.253 (25 Feb 2004 06:52:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 06:52:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 25 07:52:34 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AvsuI-0001pS-00 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 07:52:34 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AvsuH-0001uJ-00 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 07:52:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AvsuF-0003BU-B9 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 01:52:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1Avssy-0002At-Qj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 01:51:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1Avss8-0000nB-A9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 01:50:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [210.143.35.52] (helo=TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Avss7-0000iU-ED; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 01:50:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp (mailgate54.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.195]) by TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id i1P6oBe08302; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:50:12 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from root@localhost) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) id i1P6oBE16890; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:50:11 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from edtmg02.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.26.16.202]) by mailsv3.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W-MAILSV4-NEC) with ESMTP id i1P6o9h14778; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:50:10 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by edtmg02.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1P6o7KR007325; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:50:08 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcspd15 (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.12.10/8.12.8/EDcg v2.01-mc/1046780839) with ESMTP id i1P6o6nX003935; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:50:06 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 3ADAD432; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:50:06 +0900 (JST) Original-To: alexander.winston@comcast.net System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <1077691165.6554.1.camel@duende> Original-Lines: 19 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20171 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20171 Alexander Winston writes: > > > - Copyright (C) 1989, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 01, 02, 03 > > > + Copyright (C) 1989, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000,01,02,03,04 > > > > I'm not sure we are allowed to abbreviate the years like that. > > Why not use "1989, 1992--2004"? My recollection is that Richard posted on this list that 2-digit abbreviations like the above were `OK', but year ranges were not (according to the FSF's lawyer). It seems doubtful that a space after the comma or not makes any difference. -Miles -- `...the Soviet Union was sliding in to an economic collapse so comprehensive that in the end its factories produced not goods but bads: finished products less valuable than the raw materials they were made from.' [The Economist]