Hi.
If you use NetBeans you might be interested in a NetBeans license file
for the new copyright.
Follow the link from the copyright page Bill linked to earlier to
download the file and for a brief description for how to install it.
Note that it works for new files only.
- Tim
On Aug 20, 2010, at 3:39 PM, Bill Shannon wrote:
> I've begun the long process of updating the copyright headers in all
> our files. I've written a program that will check, and in many cases
> repair, incorrect copyright headers. The program attempts to repair
> incorrect headers in three types of files:
>
> 1. files with Java comment syntax (/* ... */)
> 2. files with XML comment syntax (<!-- ... -->)
> 3. files with properties file comment syntax (#)
>
> I've applied the program to the GlassFish workspace and checked in
> the changes. Until that point, *all* of our copyright headers were
> incorrect, because they were still the Sun copyright headers. My
> program has corrected them to be the Oracle copyright headers.
>
> I'm pretty confident that case #1 is handled well for .java files,
> but it also applies to .js and .css files and I'm less confident
> there.
>
> Case #3 is particularly difficult. First of all, most of our
> properties
> files don't have any copyright information. In cases where they do,
> one of the challenges is that if a copyright comment is followed by
> another comment, there's no obvious way to know where one ends and the
> next one begins. I manually fixed a bunch of files to insert a blank
> line to separate the copyright header from other comments.
>
> In all cases my program depends on a clear separation between the
> copyright content and the following content. We've already corrected
> a number of cases where the closing comment characters were followed
> on the same line by other content. I suspect there may be more that
> I've missed.
>
> If you find any files that were broken by the copyright update, please
> let me know. And of course fix them!
>
> You'll find more information about copyrights here:
> http://wikis.sun.com/display/glassfish/Copyrights
>
> Workspaces in addition to the main GlassFish workspace will need to be
> updated as well. If you'd like to use my program to update another
> workspace, send me a message directly.
>
> Thanks.
>
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