Janneke Nieuwenhuizen writes:

[..]
>>> diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
>>> index d109877a32..f35e156376 100644
>>> --- a/doc/guix.texi
>>> +++ b/doc/guix.texi
>>> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
>>>  Copyright @copyright{} 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Efraim Flashner@*
>>>  Copyright @copyright{} 2016 John Darrington@*
>>>  Copyright @copyright{} 2016, 2017 Nikita Gillmann@*
>>> -Copyright @copyright{} 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 Janneke Nieuwenhuizen@*
>>> +Copyright @copyright{} 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 Janneke Nieuwenhuizen@*
>>
>> Maybe use 2016-2025 :-).
>
> Hmm.  I thought you needed to have a special exception in the README to
> be able for that to hold up in court.  I've been postponing to look into
> this mess (I used to be too heavily into copyright in my LilyPond years).
> However, it seems today is the day :)
>
> From <https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html>
>
> You can use a range (‘2008-2010’) instead of listing individual years
> (‘2008, 2009, 2010’) if and only if: 1) every year in the range,
> inclusive, really is a “copyrightable” year that would be listed
> individually; and 2) you make an explicit statement in a README file
> about this usage.
>
> Sadly, the manual does not seem to give a template to use for this, and
> I have learnt to stay away from authoring legal texts.  I just asked
> gnu-prog-discuss about this.
>
> I cannot find such a statement in the Guix README?  Ludo'?

Emacs uses

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
In copyright notices where the copyright holder is the Free Software
Foundation, then where a range of years appears, this is an inclusive
range that applies to every year in the range.  For example: 2005-2008
represents the years 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

so I propose the attached patch.

WDYT?

Greetings,
Janneke