[hibernate-dev] Copyright year in license header

[Steve Ebersole]

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.

On Thu 12 Apr 2012 03:07:33 PM CDT, Gunnar Morling wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> what is our guideline with respect to specifying the year of copyright
> in source code license headers? Is it only the year of the last update
> or an interval such as "2009 - 2012"?
>
> I know that the matter was discussed before, but based on the mails
> I've found, I'm not sure what the final decision was. I'd like to add
> this information to the "Contributing to HV" wiki page.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Gunnar
>
> [1] https://community.jboss.org/wiki/ContributingToHibernateValidator#Coding_Guidelines
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