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[eclipse-dev] Is anyone still using Copyright tool?

Question is about [1] being still used by anyone. I haven't seen anyone using it/running it on git repos like it has been in the past. Changing copyright year in every file is not mandatory for Eclipse TLP since 2016 [2] and has never been mandatory for other projects AFAIK.
What I look for is removing this part of Eclipse Releng plugin to gain the following benefits:
1. Drop dependency on EGit in Eclipse Platform and thus circular build dependency.
2. Point 1 will allow to to build Eclipse Platform p2 repo in a way that includes all transitive dependencies [3]
3. Point 2 will allow to switch third-party dependencies to require rather than include and thus support version ranges.
4. Point 3 will allow updates of third party dependencies for security reasons to be far simpler as currently it's a terrible experience [4]
5. Point 3 will simplify updates of third party dependencies in Eclipse Platform releng as touching features should be far less frequent event just cause exact version is hardcoded in includes.  e.g. [5]

The potential benefit is quite big so please come up with proposals how/what to do and still improve our procedures.

[1] https://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/How_to_Use_Eclipse_Copyright_Tool
[2] https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/PMC/Minutes_2016
[3] https://www.eclipse.org/tycho/sitedocs/tycho-p2/tycho-p2-repository-plugin/assemble-repository-mojo.html#includeAllDependencies
[4] https://www.eclipse.org/lists/tycho-user/msg08879.html
[5] https://git.eclipse.org/c/equinox/rt.equinox.bundles.git/commit/?id=58e5c221bfc493e40d499f58c93a17cc14d061ac

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Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse Team

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