Re: Copyright information in source files

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 8:44 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 11:39 PM vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >> * Copyright (c) 2016-2019, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
>
> > While we're talking about copyrights, I noticed while researching
> > something else that the PHP project recently got rid of all the
> > copyright years from their files, which is one less thing to update
> > and one less cause of noise in the change log for rarely-changed
> > files. Is there actually a good reason to update the year?
>
> Good question.
>
> I was wondering about something even simpler: is there a reason to
> have per-file copyright notices at all? Why isn't it good enough
> to have one copyright notice at the top of the tree?
>
> Actual legal advice might be a good thing to have here ...

+1 for having single copyright notice at the top of the tree.
What about file header, should we have anything at all?

Regards,
Vignesh
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