this plugin might help:
http://code.google.com/p/maven-license-plugin/
I know other projects (at apache) have used this or something like it to
validate the header files. I believe it can introduce build failures
similar to a surefire test failure.
Bill Shannon wrote:
> Tim Quinn wrote:
>> Bill Shannon wrote:
>>> Carla Carlson wrote:
>>>> developers are responsible for updating their copyright years. You
>>>> need to update the year when you
>>>> update a file.
>>>
>>> Where "update the year" means changing
>>>
>>> Copyright 2008
>>>
>>> to
>>>
>>> Copyright 2008-2009
>>>
>>> The first copyright year always remains and the last copyright year
>>> is added or updated.
>> IANAL, but in general isn't the form a comma-separated list whose
>> elements are either a single year or a range, with a range indicating
>> that changes were made in every one of the years in that range?
>>
>> So
>>
>> Copyright 2004, 2007-2009
>> means changes occurred in '04, '07, '08, and '09, which has a
>> different meaning from
>>
>> Copyright 2004-2009
>>
>> although I have no idea what the real legal implications would be.
>
> IANAL but the last time I talked to one about this they were happy
> with a range of years. The enumerated list is also acceptable, but
> generally more work than it's worth to maintain.
>
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