Installing 'update-copyright' on PQM

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Martin Pool wrote:
> 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.
> 

It will, given again the "copy the source to a new file" which
auto-inherits the wrong copyright dates.

John
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