A begin year and end year are sufficient. It's acceptable, but not
necessary, to skip the years in which no changes were made. Personally,
I prefer to keep it simple.
Tim Quinn wrote on 01/07/2010 05:55 AM:
> 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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