README: Describe meaning of copyright year ranges.
authorBen Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
Sun, 2 Jan 2011 16:37:31 +0000 (08:37 -0800)
committerBen Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
Sun, 2 Jan 2011 18:52:34 +0000 (10:52 -0800)
This is required by the GNU maintainers guide as a prerequisite for using
copyright year ranges.  So far, PSPP itself doesn't use ranges, but Gnulib
(which PSPP uses) does.

README

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@@ -88,3 +88,6 @@ following:
           statistical procedures is evolving quickly enough that a
           plug-in model does not make sense.  Over the long term, it
           may make sense to introduce plug-ins.
+
+For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package note
+that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.