On Sun, 2021-06-20 at 20:11 -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote: > Doing some review/cleanups in the MIPS profiles and there's some degree of > variability going on with the top copyright header, mainly in the beginning > year. I'm wanting to fix all of those up, but what is the appropriate > beginning year here? 1999, or the first year that the file appeared? I am > inclined to go with "Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors" across the board, > but given that copyright is always a touchy subject, figured I'd ask. >
For profiles, I think 'first appeared' is the correct year. However, I'd just not waste your time and leave the start year as is, i.e.: sed -i -e '1s:-[0-9]+:-2021:' -e '1s:Foundation:Authors:' ... or something like that (untested). -- Best regards, Michał Górny
