Ludo,
Uncork some champagne, and wait a year.
Lloyd
On Jan 7, 2010, at 7:12 AM, Ludovic Champenois wrote:
> Yep, they could have decided to be more precise than a year and ask for up to the microsecond of the change timestamp...
> Which timezone do we need to use for changes close to newyeareve?
>
> Ludo
>
> On Jan 7, 2010, at 5:57 AM, Markus Karg <karg_at_quipsy.de> wrote:
>
>> I understand, that you for the explanation (in fact I wonder how simple the world would be without lawyers) :-)
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Timothy.Quinn_at_Sun.COM [mailto:Timothy.Quinn_at_Sun.COM]
>> Sent: Donnerstag, 7. Januar 2010 14:56
>> To: dev_at_glassfish.dev.java.net
>> Subject: Re: copyright 2010
>>
>>
>>
>> As I understand it, we are to modify the existing single line.
>>
>> If a file has the dates (for example) 2004-2009, then if you were editing it today you would replace that date range with 2004-2010. Strictly speaking (although I am not a lawyer), if the existing range is 2004-2008 then the new range would be
>>
>> 2004-2008,2010
>>
>> because no changes were made in 2009.
>>
>> - Tim
>>
>> Markus Karg wrote:
>>
>> When modifying an existing file, do I have to *add a new* copyright
>> line, or do I have to *replace* the year in the *existing* copyright
>> line?
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bill Shannon [mailto:bill.shannon_at_sun.com]
>> Sent: Mittwoch, 6. Januar 2010 21:01
>> To: dev_at_glassfish.dev.java.net
>> Subject: copyright 2010
>>
>> 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
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GlassFish Team