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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: FYI: copyright years updated...
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> What would happen if we post-date these copyright year numbers to
> some long-in-the-future year, so this chore goes away?

clever idea :-). But unfortunately, we need to verify that
legally significant changes have been made in order to claim
copyright for a given year. And, on the practical side of things,
we regularly add new files, and those files would need to be
updated at some point.

-- 
Joel