RFR (S): 7197424: update copyright year to match last edit in jdk8 hotspot repository

Tao Mao tao.mao at oracle.com
Mon Oct 8 18:28:39 PDT 2012


followup question:
Does one who modifies the files have the responsibility to update the 
copyright year? Is it supposed to be done this way?

Thanks.
Tao

On 2012/10/8 18:05, Mikael Vidstedt wrote:
>
> Yes, the script extracts all the change sets from the current year and 
> updates the copyright year for the files touched by those (and only 
> those) change sets.
>
> Cheers,
> Mikael
>
> On 10/8/2012 5:51 PM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
>>
>> I thought the copyright header was only updated if the file was 
>> changed in 2012.  Is this the case with these files?
>> Thanks,
>> Coleen
>>
>> On 10/8/2012 8:30 PM, Mikael Vidstedt wrote:
>>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> Can I please get a couple of reviews of the below change?
>>>
>>> Don't be scared by the size of the change, even though it touches 
>>> many files (271 to be exact) the change is the same for all of them 
>>> - updating the copyright year in the header. The change was created 
>>> using the make/scripts/update_copyright_year.sh script from the JDK.
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mikael/7197424/webrev.00/webrev/
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mikael
>>>
>



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