[hibernate-dev] Copyright year in license header

[Steve Ebersole]

Well I will only speak for ORM project here, but I would prefer this 
not be automated.

On Fri 13 Apr 2012 07:09:24 AM CDT, Gunnar Morling wrote:
> 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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