- Building Emacs on non-Posix platforms requires to install tools
-that aren't part of the standard distribution of the OS. The
-platform-specific README files and installation instructions should
-list the required tools.
+ Building Emacs on non-Posix platforms requires tools that aren't part
+of the standard distribution of the OS. The platform-specific README
+files and installation instructions should list the required tools.
+
+\f
+NOTE ON COPYRIGHT YEARS
+
+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.