Please update copyright year to 2014 in any file you create / modify

Kevin Rushforth kevin.rushforth at oracle.com
Fri Jan 3 05:58:29 PST 2014


I'll be the first to admit that I just failed at this. A few minutes 
ago, I pushed the following changeset and forgot to update the copyright 
year:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjfx/8u-dev/rt/rev/c7e94937d287

I see a couple other changesets pushed over the past two days that 
similarly didn't include the updating of the copyright. I will "bulk 
fix" the few that have come in so far, and set a better example by 
trying to remember to do this going forward.

Thank you in advance to others who remember this.

-- Kevin


Kevin Rushforth wrote:
> Happy New Year OpenJFX folks!
>
> Since it is now 2014, when you modify any source code file, please 
> update the last copyright year in the Oracle copyright header to 
> reflect this. Here are the three cases to consider.
>
> 1) A new file created this year
>
> You would use this:
> * Copyright (c) 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
>
>
> 2) A file created and last touched in 2013
>
> For example, the following:
> * Copyright (c) 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
>
> would now be:
> * Copyright (c) 2013, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights 
> reserved.
>
>
> 3) A file created and last touched in two different prior years
>
> For example, the following:
> * Copyright (c) 2012, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights 
> reserved.
>
> would now be:
> * Copyright (c) 2012, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights 
> reserved.
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> -- Kevin
>


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