Re: copyright years: mass-update every January 1

[Eric Blake]

Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:

> I prefer to have one change set per year updating all copyright year lists,
> rather than having a copyright-list update as part of the first
> change of the year for files modified in the normal course of development.

Sounds fine.

> So I did the mass-update in coreutils.

Except I think you did too much.  COPYING should probably remain verbatim from 
upstream (you are not changing upstream COPYING as part of including it in the 
coreutils VCS, so much as silencing an automake warning).  And there were lots 
of ChangeLog files in the mix; even though they belong to coreutils, it just 
seems weird to see a copyright date of 2009 on a file named 'ChangeLog-2005'.

-- 
Eric Blake