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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/7/2015 5:34 AM, Blair Bonnett wrote:
> On 7 January 2015 at 20:03, Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> Do not replace the older dates with a newer date. Instead, as files
> are modified
>> (and only as they're modified), add '2015'.  So "Copyright 2014 Mr. X"
> would
>> become "Copyright 2014-2015 Mr. X".  Book publishers do something similar
>> with their "1st ed. Copyright, 2nd ed. Copyright" etc. You don't want
> to erase
>> your history by saying only 'Copyright 2015'. There is really no point
> in adding
>> 2015 unless a file has genuinely been altered though; at least in the
> USA, UK,
>> and Australia the copyright is valid from date of writing to copyright
> holder's
>> death + some large number of years (150 in the USA thanks to the Mickey
>> Mouse Bill).
> 
> And its easy enough to find out which files have been worked on this
> year from git:
> 
> $ TZ=UTC git whatchanged --date=local --since "1/1/2015" --name-only
> --oneline --pretty=format: | sort -u
> 
> I dare say there's a bazaar equivalent. In case anybody is interested
> I've put a copy of the changed files as of the time of writing up
> at http://pastebin.com/7eM93EXw -- note that deleting a file counts as a
> modification and so removed files will appear in the list.
> 
> From here it should be possible to write a script which opens each file,
> looks for a copyright header at the top and checks to see if 2015
> appears in it. Bit late in the day for me to have a crack at that now
> though...
> 
> -- Blair

We haven't been as diligent about keeping our copyright dates current as
we probably should be.  Although I'm not thrilled with the idea of
updating the date for every source file at the beginning of every year
either.  I think updating them whenever we modify a source file is adequate.

> 
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