Vitaliy wrote:

> William "Chops" Westfield wrote:
>> We have automatic copyright updates as part of file checkin in our  
>> version control software.  I think that's appropriate and results in  
>> correct copyright notices.  It's also pretty easy to implement (v1 was  
>> a check for out-of-date copyrights, v2 does the automatic update.)
> 
> I'm curious, how does it work?

Not sure what they do, but you could use a placeholder (e.g. $CopyYears$
in CVSNT) and have the script update it with the years of the first
revision and the current revision, with the specific formatting (comma,
dash, whatever) being hardcoded in the script.

The exact mechanics how to implement something like this depend on the
version control system.

Gerhard
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