[jfx21u] RFR: 8317370: JavaFX runtime version is wrong at runtime

[Kevin Rushforth]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:14:12 GMT, John Neffenger <jgneff at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The only thing that didn't get copied over with the original commit is the updated copyright statement in the VersionInfo.java class:

That's because the copyright year was updated separately and later as part of [JDK-8318714](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8318714) . So it is correctly not part of this backport PR.

> In general, do we try to keep that copyright statement updated when backporting a fix?

No.

> By the way, would it be worthwhile to investigate whether we could stop updating the copyright years or even drop the years altogether?

Unless and until Oracle's legal department tells us we can stop doing this, I wouldn't spend any time asking whether we need to keep it up to date. However, in order to avoid unnecessary merge conflicts, especially for fixes that might be backported, I often skip updating the copyright year as part of a fix itself, as you did, preferring to let the automated scripts take care of it.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx21u/pull/32#issuecomment-1827997878