README: Mention ranges are OK in copyright notices.

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- The [[https://www.gnu.org/s/gsrc/][GNU Source Release Collection]] (GSRC) is a user-land software
distribution; unlike Guix, it relies on core tools available on the
host system
* Copyright Notices
GNU Guix is made available under the GNU GPL version 3 or later license, and
authors retain their copyright. For copyright notices, we adhere to the
guidance documented in (info "(maintain) Copyright Notices"), and explicitly
allow ranges instead of individual years. Here's an example of the preferred
style used for copyright notices in source file headers:
#+begin_comment
Copyright © 2019-2023, 2025 Your Name <your@email.com>
#+end_comment
Meaning there were copyright-able changes made for the years 2019, 2020, 2021,
2022, 2023 and 2025.