[hibernate-dev] Copyright year in license header

[Gunnar Morling]

Hi,

if there is no strong legal constraint for this, we might also always
simply specify the range "year of inception - current year".

This could be automated using the Maven license plugin [1], which can
add/update headers for all sources based on a template and also fail
the build if there is a file without correct header.

Compared to updating headers individually when changing a file, I
think that would be simpler from a developer's perspective and also
reduce the risk of forgetting headers, copying old ones etc.

--Gunnar

[1] http://code.google.com/p/maven-license-plugin/


Am 13. April 2012 10:38 schrieb Hardy Ferentschik <hardy at hibernate.org>:
>
> On Apr 13, 2012, at 12:16 AM, Steve Ebersole wrote:
>
>> Gunnar, it is largely irrelevant based on the legal expertise we have
>> been given by Red Hat.
>>
>> But if you are going to keep up with it (and I think there is value to
>> that, and do it myself still) generally the year should just be touched
>> for non-trivial updates.  A range is good.  Simply updating the year to
>> the current year is fine.  Listing years of all such non-trivial
>> updates is yet another good approach.  Personally I tend to just update
>> the year.
>
> +1 My preference is also to just update the year.
>
> --Hardy
>
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