Installing 'update-copyright' on PQM

[Martin Pool]

On 24 June 2010 09:58, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> So the reason I did this is because we have a many-year history of
> getting the copyright line wrong. So it seems reasonable to push for it
> to become correct, and avoid artificially adding this year to everything.
>
> Certainly we could do what you say, and have a single run of "ignore
> this year, but add everything else", and then a separate update that
> triggers whenever a file is modified.
>
> I don't really see that as being particularly more correct than the
> existing code, though.

The thing is that if I actually do copy code in from elsewhere,
perhaps outside of bzr altogether, that algorithm won't see it, and
may (?) actually strip the copyright off.  At that point it does look
a bit legally wrong, or at least a bit aggressive for something run
automatically.

-- 
Martin