From 28dda78a5ebc6d69fb9c0141f7c452a9e39b5017 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gregory Nutt Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 07:38:50 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] COPYING: Clarify notation used in years specified in copyright notices. --- COPYING | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING index 878c75da72..c4f7033a0f 100644 --- a/COPYING +++ b/COPYING @@ -7,6 +7,16 @@ described in license (below), respect Trademarks, and include a copy of the BSD license. Please feel free to contact me if you have any licensing concerns. +Copyright Date Notation: Copyright information is provided in the header +of each file. This copyright information includes the year(s) in which +copyrighted additions to the file were made. A comma ('.') is used to +separate years in the list of years. A hyphen ('-') is used as a more +compact notation when additions were made over several consecutive years. +So for example, "2007, 2011" would mean that copyrighted addtiions +were made during the years of 2007 and 2011. Whereas "2007-2011" +would indicate copyrighted additions in the years 2007, 2008, 2009, +2010, and 2011. + NuttX ^^^^^