[hibernate-dev] Copyright headers

Emmanuel Bernard emmanuel at hibernate.org
Mon Feb 14 11:11:32 EST 2011


On 14 févr. 2011, at 16:32, Hardy Ferentschik wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:13:10 +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.



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