Re: RFC: stop doing "grand replace" updates to copyright years

[Janneke Nieuwenhuizen]

Han-Wen Nienhuys writes:

Hey,

> Every year, we go over the source code to update the copyright years
> that are found in the source headers. I propose to stop this.

+1

> Also note that many other projects (eg. git) seem to survive just fine
> without yearly exercise like this.

Yes.  Of course, git is not a GNU project but I see this in projects
like Guix too.  usually, $author includes a copyright year update in
their patch when they make a change to a file.  For trivial changes, it
could be skipped but that's often usually up to the courtesy of $author.

Greetings,
Janneke

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