Re: [Java Patch] Fix copyright headers for Java

["Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>]

On 1 Jan 2003, Steven Bosscher wrote:

> the copyright years with 2003. I also changed some files to say "This
> file is part of GCC", that seemed like the right thing to do but I'm not
> sure about it.

Once the "GNU CC" references have been dealt with, it might be worth
auditing the different versions of the licence notices that are used.  
The standard GNU notice, as stated in
<http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain.html>, would be (the line breaks and
indentation being insignificant):

     This file is part of GCC.

     GCC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
     by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your
     option) any later version.

     GCC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
     WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
     General Public License for more details.

     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
     along with GCC; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free
     Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
     02111-1307, USA.

(but probably check with RMS before changing all the references to
particular subprogram names, e.g. "GNU Fortran", to the overall "GCC"
package name).

However, there are probably several variants present; and even versions
with the old address of the FSF (grep for "675" to find them) - though
I've fixed references to the old address in the past, sometimes new files
get added with it.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk