On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 02:44:13PM +0200, Paul Cochrane wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently added a test to the coding standards tests which checks > for a copyright statement, and that the copyright date is up to date. > After a discussion on #parrot, Coke made the observation that maybe > the most recent date shouldn't be the same as the current year because > the file might not have been updated for a couple of years. So, the > question I'd like to post to the list is: how do we define the year > range in the copyright statement in source files? Should it be > C<start-year>-C<current-year> or C<start-year>-C<year-last-updated>?
I think this was discussed once before, and the conclusion was that the copyright years should reflect the date a file was last updated. Personally, I think that a testing for the existence of a copyright statement is good, but that the test should not be trying to enforce specific dates or a specific policy on dates -- there are likely to be too many exceptions. Pm
