Merge of ayardley/upd_copyrights

[James E Keenan]

On 2/27/12 3:59 PM, Alvis Yardley wrote:
> [Meant for parrot-dev]
>
> Coke, Andy, et.al.,
>
> I appreciate the quick feedback.  It's really not a problem, either way. I did
> the thing _thinking_ it was a good idea -- without discussing it on #parrot, I
> might add. That doesn't mean it was! :)
>
> And, fwiw, I probably have a fairly legalistic way of looking at copyright
> assertions, yada, yada. That is, more paperwork-shuffle, than functional and
> legally operative.
>

You might also want to glance at t/codingstd/copyright.t.  This tests 
for the presence of copyright statements -- in a specific format -- in a 
large subset of our source code.

(There are a few oddball cases where someone other than Parrot 
foundation is listed as copyright owner.)

This test file doesn't, however, test for recency of copyright date, 
i.e., whether the copyright for a file that was created before 2012 and 
modified in 2012 has been updated to: *-2012.  I haven't looked at your 
branch, but it would be great to have your program test for recency as 
per the copyright policy cited by Duke.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan