[8u] [RFR] Request for Review of Backport of JDK-8078628: linux-zero does not build without precompiled header
David Holmes
david.holmes at oracle.com
Mon Feb 26 06:14:44 UTC 2018
On 26/02/2018 4:01 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> On 23 February 2018 at 06:17, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> ...
>
>>
>> Our internal policy is that any change to a file requires we update the
>> copyright year.
>>
>> If you refactor code you move it from one file to another but that still
>> requires a copyright update.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David
>>
>>
>
> And it has been updated; to the year the changes were made.
That's not the rule we (Oracle) have.
> To change it to the current year would be a lie as that's not when
> these changes were made or published.
It's when they were made/published in _this_ file and the copyright is
applied to the file.
Always frustrating that what should be a simple set of rules easily
expressed and clearly written down, never are because they are the
domain of the lawyers. :(
David
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