Fwd: Updating copyright dates automatically

[Robert Dewar]

On 1/2/2013 12:26 PM, Jeff Law wrote:
>
> Any thoughts on doing something similar?
>
> I've always found lazily updating the copyright years to be error prone.
>    If we could just update all of them now, which is OK according to the
> FSF guidelines we could avoid one class of problems.

For GNAT at AdaCore, we have a precommit script that does not let
you check in something with a wrong copyright date. That works well.

(boy that was a gigantic email, I hope we don't get a slew of people
being lazy and quoting it :-))