[bug #50971] Automate copyright years update

[Werner LEMBERG]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #50971 (project groff):

In

  https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html

you can find the following in section 6.5, `Copyright Notices', which is
relevant to GNU software:

* To update the list of year numbers, add each year in which you have  made
nontrivial changes to the package.  (Here we assume you’re using a publicly
accessible revision control server, so that every revision installed is also
immediately and automatically published.) When you add the new year, it is not
required to keep track of which files have seen significant changes in the new
year and which have not.  It is recommended and simpler to add the new year to
all files in the package, and be done with it for the rest of the year.

So, the important point is that copyright notices in all files should be
updated if there are non-trivial changes to the *package*.


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