Re: [cdt-dev] No longer need to add contributor's name in copyright head

[Nathan Ridge <zeratul976@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a couple of questions.

First, suppose I'm adding a new file. Whereas before I might have put the following comment at the top:

/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2015 Nathan Ridge.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     Nathan Ridge - Initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/

Should I now put:

/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2015.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *******************************************************************************/

?

Should I still be updating the copyright year when I touch an existing file?

Thanks,
Nate

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> From: marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:39:45 +0000
> Subject: [cdt-dev] No longer need to add contributor's name in copyright header
>
> Hi,
>
> thanks for an initiative from Teo and the good work of the Eclipse Foundation (http://eclip.se/435933), it is no longer necessary to add the name of a contributor to the copyright header of each file they change.
>
>> Mike Milinkovich from comment #18:
>> So this topic has been discussed by the IP Advisory Committee, and the EMO
>> and there is a consensus that we will let each project decide whether or not
>> they want to allow names in the header, but Eclipse IP will rely fully on
>> the Git logs.
>
> This is good news since adding names to copyright headers was causing merge conflicts and was annoying to contributors that had to update their contributions for this. The contribution is fully tracked by Git.
>
> I suggest we don't forbid putting the name in the copyright headers (some contributors/committers may like to put it in some cases), but we no longer need to ask people to do it. My guess is that people will stop doing it as soon as they get a couple of merge conflicts :)
>
> Marc
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