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

[Mikael Vidstedt]

Thanks Coleen!

/Mikael

On 10/9/2012 10:17 AM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
>
> Mikael,  This looks good.
>
> Coleen
>
> On 10/9/2012 12:59 PM, Mikael Vidstedt wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>>>
>>