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.
*
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* General Public License Version 2 only ("GPL") or the Common Development
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* 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]"
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*
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*/
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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