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

[Mikael Vidstedt]

I also did a couple of additional verifications to make sure the script 
seemed to have done the right thing and it does indeed look correct.

I think there's been some work to see if we can have the update happen 
more or less automagically at modification time and I agree that if we 
could reduce the pain level it would be nice to do it that way, but just 
as you say there are pros and cons.

Thanks,
Mikael

On 10/8/2012 6:42 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> Hi Mikael,
>
> On 9/10/2012 10:30 AM, Mikael Vidstedt wrote:
>> 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/
>
> I've verified that the copyrights have been updated to 2012.
>
> I can't (well won't :) ) validate that they should have been updated 
> to 2012. I did check a couple and saw that JSR-292 changes seem t be 
> involved a lot. ;-)
>
> Personally I'd prefer to see file copyrights always updated at 
> modification time (preferably automagically!) rather than in bulk 
> later - as later no one is validating the change. Hotspot always 
> tended to work this way in the past, whereas the JDK did/does not. 
> There are pros and cons either way.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>> Thanks,
>> Mikael
>>