README: Explicitly state meaning of year ranges in copyright statements

Year ranges in copyright statements have no legal meaning. That's why we
explicitly state what they mean in README.

For details, see:
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@gmail.com>
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@ -20,6 +20,21 @@ There have been no official tarball releases, yet.
Distro packagers should NOT package this, yet.
Copyright notices
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A copyright notice indicating a range of years, must be interpreted as having
had copyrightable material added in each of those years.
Example:
Copyright (C) 2010-2013 Contributor Name
is to be interpreted as
Copyright (C) 2010,2011,2012,2013 Contributor Name
Mailing lists
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