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Re: copyright date

From: Tim Quinn <tim.quinn_at_oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:08:45 -0500

Can you share the script?

I don't expect there's a simple way to distinguish the false positives
from the real ones - maybe an exception list as with FindBugs? - but
I'll take a quick look.


On Mar 24, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Bill Shannon wrote:

> Tim Quinn wrote on 03/24/10 07:06 AM:
>> At least some of the check-ins in 2010 were the rollback of earlier
>> changes made in 2010 to the files' 2009 states. So the resulting
>> state
>> of the source is as it was in 2009 even though the latest action on
>> the
>> file was in 2010. I would think that the copyright for such a file
>> should remain 2009 since the code in such a file has not been
>> changed in
>> 2010.
>>
>> I guess the script that generated this list does not account for that
>> case so we have some false positives here?
>
> There's no way the script can know that. It only knows when the file
> was last changed in svn. If you can think of a way the script can
> figure
> that out, let me know. Otherwise, please update the dates to 2010 so
> the script can continue to check for errors.
>
>
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