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[tigerstripe-dev] FW: [cosmos-dev] Fix copyrights tool
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FYI....
The Eclipse repository contains a
tool that will fix copyrights in your code. It will insert copyrights into
any files that are missing them, and will also attempt to insert the additional
year for modified files (e.g. "2007, 2008"). In my experience, it does the
former perfectly, but it's not extremely accurate in performing the latter task.
But since it's most important that all relevant files have a copyright, I
encourage you to run this tool periodically against your own code.
Here are the steps to load and run the fix
copyrights tool. 1. Load module
org.eclipse.releng.tools from repository /cvsroot/eclipse on
dev.eclipse.org. 2. Export the plugin to
your plugins directory by selecting Export... from the popup menu and then
Deployable plugins and fragments 3.
Restart Eclipse to pick up the new plugin (shortcut is to choose File >
Switch Workspace and incidate the same workspace). 4. Go to Window > Preferences > Copyright Tool to
set your copyright preferences. For IBM committers, the template should
appear as follows: Copyright (c) ${date}
IBM Corporation. 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:
IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation 5. Set default creation year in the preferences to 2008
and default revision year to 2008. Click OK to save the
preferences. 6. Switch to the Resource
perspective. 7. Select all projects for
which you want to run the tool and select Advanced Fix Copyrights from the
context menu. 8. If the tool has changed
any files (and it probably will), you will want to inspect its work during
synchronization with the repo, since as I mentioned, it's not entirely accurate
with modified files, even though it works well for files that didn't already
have a copyright. Let me know if you
have any questions. I guess it probably wouldn't hurt to copy these
instructions to the dev process area of the wiki. David
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