[DRIVERS-329] Common policy for copyright dates in headers and documentation Created: 11/Oct/16 Updated: 17/Mar/20 Resolved: 11/Jun/18 |
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| Status: | Closed |
| Project: | Drivers |
| Component/s: | None |
| Fix Version/s: | None |
| Type: | Improvement | Priority: | Major - P3 |
| Reporter: | David Golden | Assignee: | Unassigned |
| Resolution: | Done | Votes: | 0 |
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| Remaining Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
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| Original Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
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| Description |
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Per legal, header files should use the following format for date ranges: "<year the file was created>-present". For example:
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 Different driver projects have different conventions for updating copyright dates in files:
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. |
| Comments |
| Comment by Bernie Hackett [ 02/Dec/17 ] |
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The new policy seems to be the use of "<year file created>-present" in file headers. See the first few comments in |
| Comment by Bernie Hackett [ 11/Oct/16 ] |
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Does the header need a year at all? |