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  1. Drivers
  2. DRIVERS-329

Common policy for copyright dates in headers and documentation

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      Key Status/Resolution FixVersion
      JAVA-2755 Fixed 3.7.0
      PHPC-890 Done 1.2.3
      PHPLIB-223 Done 1.1.1
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      Per legal, header files should use the following format for date ranges: "<year the file was created>-present". For example:

      # Copyright 2009-present MongoDB, Inc.
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# ...

      Replace 2009 with whatever year the file was created.

      For documentation footers, the following text should be used:

      © MongoDB, Inc 2008-present. MongoDB, Mongo, and the leaf logo are registered trademarks of MongoDB, Inc.

      Replace 2008 with the inception year of the project.

      Original description follows
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      Different driver projects have different conventions for updating copyright dates in files:

      • Never update the year (list year of first creation)
      • Update the year in a file whenever the file is modified
      • Update all the files to the current year every year

      Should we have a common approach? Does it matter?

      As a criteria: if it doesn't really matter, we should choose the approach that requires the least amount of work for engineers.

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            david.golden@mongodb.com David Golden
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