[kepler-dev] updating copyrights

[Edward A. Lee]

What we do with Ptolemy is to list the copyright date as

    XXXX-YYYY

where XXXX is the year the file first appeared and YYYY is
the current year (or, eventually, the year when we stop doing
updates, if that ever happens).

Edward


On 1/26/10 11:12 AM, Chad Berkley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been doing some work on bug 4686, trying up update the copyrights
> in the kepler source code. I've been looking more into when the date on
> a particular source file's copyright statement should be updated. It
> looks like the date needs to be updated to the current year if the file
> has been modified in the current year. Unfortunately, since we have done
> so much refactoring in the last year, every single file has been touched
> in SVN so it's impossible to do an automated check on whether a file
> should have its date changed.
>
> So I pose these questions to the kepler community:
>
> 1) Should we (can we legally) change the dates on all of the source
> files in the kepler repository since they technically have been touched
> this year.
>
> 2) If not, how should we proceed with this? Updating the entire
> repository by hand will be very time consuming.
>
> 3) If so, should I just change all files to have a date range starting
> with the original copyright and extending to 2010, or should I just
> change it to 2010? For example, if a file currently says "copyright
> 2004", I could change it to be "2004-2010" or to just "2010".
>
> Thanks in advance for any thoughts or knowledge you have on this subject,
>
> chad
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