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Use NEWS date instead of build date

Bernhard M. Wiedemann requested to merge bmwiedemann/wget2:date into master

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Use NEWS date instead of build date
to make builds reproducible.
See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good.

This also avoids claiming copyright for future years.

Without this patch, building today's wget2 in 2030 would claim Copyright 2015-2030 Free Software Foundation, Inc

Note: this date call works with GNU date and (some) BSD date - not Windows or Solaris date.

Edited by Bernhard M. Wiedemann

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