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Should we be updating copyright years on branches?
- From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely at redhat dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:57:02 +0100
- Subject: Should we be updating copyright years on branches?
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
I just realised that all our source files still say YYYY-2013 on the
4.8 branch, because the branch was created last year and the script to
update all the files in January only gets run on trunk.
Is that a problem, or is it OK for files on the branches to only have
copyright dates up to the point the branch was created?
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Notices
doesn't say anything either way about old branches, which would imply
the copyright year should be updated when making any non-trivial
changes on a branch, as for trunk (except we do it proactively in the
new year for the trunk, not after changes are made).