Copyright cleanup project

[Sergey Bylokhov]

On 10.11.15 2:37, Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
>
> Various inconsistencies in these copyrights and licenses have been
> noticed. For example, sometimes the year range is formatted differently
> or there are extraneous extra lines in the license block. In some other
> cases, a properly formatted copyright and license is present, but an
> inappropriate license is used; for example, a test file has GPL with
> ClassPath exception where GPL is more appropriate.
>
> To help correct and regularize the licenses and copyrights, Vassili
> Igouchkine has developed tooling to analyze these portions of the source
> files. Vassili will be sending out code reviews for changes addressing
> the sorts of problems outlined above. The changes will target JDK 9 and
> be sent to aliases appropriate for the code being modified. In
> particular, precise checks will be applied to files where Oracle is the
> copyright holder. In the future, Vassili plans to develop a programmatic
> check for the licenses and copyrights that can catch both syntactic
> problems and well as improper licensing. The check will be something
> developers can run on their changesets before pushing. (This is not the
> sort of check believed to be suitable for inclusion in jcheck.)

Just curious. Does the make/scripts/lic_check.sh have the similar 
checks? Why not integrate it to jcheck or it will be run regularly by 
someone?

>
> While many of the corrections will be straightforward to review, others
> will be be tricky given the complicated history of some parts of the
> code. Please assist Vassili in this cleanup effort by providing prompt
> reviews.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Joe
>


-- 
Best regards, Sergey.