Re: Updating copyright notices to 2015 for PGDG

Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> On 01/06/2015 10:12 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> > This makes me wonder however how wise it is to update the copyright
> > notices in every single file in the repo. Why do we need this? Why not
> > abolish the practice and live forever with most files having copyright
> > 2015? (Only new files would have newer years in their copyright
> > notices, I guess.) Does this provide us with any kind of protection,
> > and if so against what, and how does it protect us? Since we have a
> > very clean git history which shows us the exact provenance of every
> > single line of source code, and we have excellent mail archives that
> > show where each line came from for all development in the last decade,
> > this single line of (C) boilerplate in each file seems completely
> > pointless.
>
> I dont know why it is really needed but maybe for the files that have
> identical copyrights one could simple reference to the COPYRIGHT file we
> already have in the tree?

+1 to that, but I would +2 a script that just did
g/Copyright Regents of Fooniversity/d
etc.

Abhijit et al will probably hate me for referencing this, but here it
goes anyway:
http://toroid.org/ams/etc/updating-copyright-notices

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