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Re: copyright 2010

From: Lloyd Chambers <Lloyd.Chambers_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:39:34 -0800

I've committed changes to all files except osgi, so any header you find in a java file should be the same everywhere, this one:

/*
 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS HEADER.
 *
 * Copyright 1997-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
 *
 * The contents of this file are subject to the terms of either the GNU
 * General Public License Version 2 only ("GPL") or the Common Development
 * and Distribution License("CDDL") (collectively, the "License"). You
 * may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain
 * a copy of the License at https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/CDDL+GPL.html
 * or glassfish/bootstrap/legal/LICENSE.txt. See the License for the specific
 * language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
 *
 * When distributing the software, include this License Header Notice in each
 * file and include the License file at glassfish/bootstrap/legal/LICENSE.txt.
 * Sun designates this particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception
 * as provided by Sun in the GPL Version 2 section of the License file that
 * accompanied this code. If applicable, add the following below the License
 * Header, with the fields enclosed by brackets [] replaced by your own
 * identifying information: "Portions Copyrighted [year]
 * [name of copyright owner]"
 *
 * Contributor(s):
 *
 * If you wish your version of this file to be governed by only the CDDL or
 * only the GPL Version 2, indicate your decision by adding "[Contributor]
 * elects to include this software in this distribution under the [CDDL or GPL
 * Version 2] license." If you don't indicate a single choice of license, a
 * recipient has the option to distribute your version of this file under
 * either the CDDL, the GPL Version 2 or to extend the choice of license to
 * its licensees as provided above. However, if you add GPL Version 2 code
 * and therefore, elected the GPL Version 2 license, then the option applies
 * only if the new code is made subject to such option by the copyright
 * holder.
 */

Lloyd

On Jan 6, 2010, at 7:18 PM, Byron Nevins wrote:

> 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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Lloyd Chambers
lloyd.chambers_at_sun.com
GlassFish Team