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Re: copyright 2010

From: Sahoo <Sahoo_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:39:06 +0530

May be we should add pre-commit hook in svn to reject commits if
copyright year is not updated?

Sahoo

Bill Shannon wrote:
> Happy New Year, everyone!
>
>
> Just a reminder...
>
> If you change a file this year, *YOU* are responsible for updating the
> copyright line in the file to include the current year.
>
> I recently wrote a program to check that the copyright and license
> header in Java source files is correct. I found *thousands* of
> files that were wrong. Most of the errors were a simple failure to
> update the copyright date.
>
> Lloyd has fixed most all of these errors. Please, help us by carefully
> checking that you've updated the copyright date before checking in any
> files.
>
> And since it's clearly not obvious judging by the number of mistakes I've
> seen... New files *must* have a copyright/license header.
>
> Any questions? Ask me...
>
>
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