On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Alvis Yardley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello: > > I would like to merge 'ayardley/upd_copyrights' if there are no > objections. > > The branch adds 'tools/dev/upd_copyrights.pl', a script to update > all of the copyright notices throughout the repo.[1] It also updates the > copyright notices of most, again, with a handful of exceptions, of the files > throughout the repo. > > For example, it updates copyright notices like the following from, > > Copyright (C) 2001-2011, Parrot Foundation. > > to, > > Copyright (C) 2001-2012, Parrot Foundation. > > bringing them up to date, i.e., to the current year.[2] > > While it, of course, passes 'make fulltest', I am a'bit nervous about this > repo-wide merge and, so, am asking folks to give it a'look-see and let me know > what they think. Whether it is acceptable or not. > > Thank you. > > -- > Alvis > > [1] Well, except for a handful of files, which I except for, I think, good > reason. > > [2] The reason for this is, while The Parrot Foundation's copyright, of > course, extends up through to the present year, the notices "ought", imo, > reflect this fact. That is to say, the copyright notice "ought" to assert the > Foundation's copyright up through to the current year. > > > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
Based on conversations I've seen on perl5-porters, I'm not convinced this is necessary or worth the cycles... but that probably would have been a more useful statement to make before you wrote any code; sorry. -- Will "Coke" Coleda _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
