Bill,
Is it correct to apply a copyright spanning years for which no changes were made?
"simple" and "correct" are not the same, so I'd like to hear from legal. I think you've been in contact with them, a quick verification would be helpful.
Lloyd
On Jan 7, 2010, at 11:12 AM, Bill Shannon wrote:
> Carla Mott wrote on 01/07/2010 10:27 AM:
>> 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.
>
> The headers absolutely need to be updated to contain the correct
> copyright/license text. Make the copyright date "2004-2010" to keep
> it simple.
>
> I'm still waiting on a decision from Abhijit as to which non-Java
> files must have copyright/license text in them. For now, we're not
> requiring that for property files.
>
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Lloyd Chambers
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