[hibernate-dev] Copyright headers

Hardy Ferentschik hibernate at ferentschik.de
Mon Feb 14 13:46:04 EST 2011


On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:11:32 +0100, Emmanuel Bernard  
<emmanuel at hibernate.org> wrote:

>>> It is not OK to blindly replace a copyright header with another one.
>>> One must at least make sure that:
>>> - the original copyright date is not erased
>>
>> Have the policies changed? The least time we had this discussion on  
>> hibernate-dev
>> (Oct 2009) you said:
>>
>> "When you touch an existing file or create a new one, set 2009 to the
>> copyright notice (no need to keep the previous year around)."
>
> Yes sorry,
> It looks like either I misread our legal advise or he changed his mind.  
> More likely the former.

So from now on we not just update the year, but have the 200x-2011  
approach?

--Hardy



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