Should we be updating copyright years on branches?

[Jeff Law]

On 06/13/14 03:57, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> 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?
If a release is made, then the copyright dates ought to be updated in 
files that have changed, at least that's always been my understanding.


Jeff