Re: [hibernate-dev] Copyright year in license header
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(a)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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