From: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 16:37:31 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: README: Describe meaning of copyright year ranges.
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README: Describe meaning of copyright year ranges.

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.
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diff --git a/README b/README
index d1c78db2..35e44ae7 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -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.