Re: svn commit: r22853 - in trunk: build/win32 packages/windows-innosetup subversion/bindings/swig/python subversion/libsvn_subr www

On Tue, 02 Jan 2007, David Glasser wrote:

> On 1/1/07, Justin Erenkrantz <justin@erenkrantz.com> wrote:
> >I know we've talked about this in the past (perhaps you weren't here
> >for those conversations, Malcolm), but changing copyright years when
> >the file or project hasn't substantively changed is a bad idea. Plus,
> >technically, it's only supposed to be the year of first publication
> >not the most recent one.
>
> While I understand what you mean with respect to the per-file
> copyright notices, I can't imagine that there would be a release from
> Subversion's trunk that does not include substantial changes that
> occurred in 2007, so I'm not sure what's wrong with (admittedly
> preemptively) updating the whole-project copyright notice.

Indeed, for this particular subset of code base-wide license files, a
preemptive change seems fine to me. For individual source files, we
bump the copyright only when they're changed.