Is there official boiler plate to use for the comment for new files? I
see many different versions in the source code...
Sahoo wrote:
> 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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