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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
> Bud Rogers <budr@sirinet.net> writes:
> 
> > > ;; Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > > 
> > > Or something?
> > 
> > The Xemacs splash page has several lines of copyright notices in that form.
> > My copy doesn't have any -2000's yet, but I'll bet newer versions will.
> 
> I'm now updating the copyright notices to use this format.

The FSF maintainer info file seems to have been updated recently to
say not to use ranges for copyright years.

        http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain_4.html#SEC4