[Cosmo-dev] Remember to update the copyright year in any source edits you make

[Mike Taylor]

> >I see that some parts of the code just say Copyright 2006 and some  
> say
> >Copyright 2005-2006..is that correct to have it that way or should we
> >have 2005-2006 (2005-2007 now)throughout the code base?
>
> my understanding is that the first year listed is that when the source
> file was created. but i might be on crack.

This time bcm is not on crack ;)

The copyright year is relative to the file itself.

If a file is currently showing 2006 then you would change it to be  
2006-2007 but if another file is showing 2005-2006 then *that* file  
would now be 2005-2007.

If you don't touch (i.e. make substantive edits to) a file, then you  
don't update it's copyright notice.

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bear

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