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

Mikael Vidstedt mikael.vidstedt at oracle.com
Tue Oct 9 09:53:10 PDT 2012


Just because we enter a new calendar year doesn't mean the copyright 
year should automatically be updated to 2013 - the year should reflect 
the year when the last actual change was made.

Cheers,
Mikael

On 10/9/2012 6:58 AM, Azeem Jiva wrote:
> Doesn't it make more sense to wait a few months and update everything 
> to 2013?
>
> On 10/08/2012 07:30 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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