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[Miguel Ángel Ajo <majopela@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is what I see (update as you go) in other open source projects (openstack  
related ones in my case).

Sometimes they do a major sweep for example, removing @author references and stuff
like that, as authorship is already tracked by git.



Miguel Ángel Ajo


On Wednesday, 7 de January de 2015 at 15:42, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:

> 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)
> > <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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