Copyright years should be for the years changes were made, and no others.
You are correct that if the file has not changed (other than the copyright header), then it should retain the original year(s).
Lloyd
On Jan 7, 2010, at 10:27 AM, Carla Mott wrote:
> Lloyd Chambers wrote:
>> The dates were all updated based on svn checkin date, according to Bill, who wrote the tool.
>> There is no reason a file can't have existed in 2009 without being changed.
> I can't parse this statement because of all the negatives. I'm in the process of updating some files that have a 2004 copyright header. They were moved from the v2 workspace and never changed (May 2005). Many of the LogStrings.properties files are unchanged since the repository was created and the header is different than the one that we are using currently. From this discussion it seems that since the file has not changed in all this time is contains the correct heade, assuming that the header was not supposed to be changed when it was initially brought into v3.
>
> The complete header in the file is:
>
> # Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
> # SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
>
> I plan on making changes to some of these files so those will have the headers updated but I'm not going to necessarily change all of the LogStrings.properties files.
>
> Thanks,
> Carla
>> Lloyd
>> On Jan 7, 2010, at 8:52 AM, Bobby Bissett wrote:
>>>> If it reads:
>>>>
>>>> * Copyright 1997-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
>>> Then it probably means that someone forgot to update it in 2009. :) or :(
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Bobby
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