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Bug 352069

Summary:	Add copyright notion to Java source files
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Eugen Paraschiv <hanriseldon>
Component:	Releng	Assignee:	Platform-Releng-Inbox <platform-releng-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, david_williams, hanriseldon, lufimtse, remy.suen
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Eugen Paraschiv

2011-07-14 07:05:59 EDT

Build Identifier: 201107091000

The notion of copyright headers is pretty much the standard across a variety of different projects. 
Eclipse should support this notion and be able to change it across all files of a project consistently. 
This would enable a refactoring of the copyright across all the files that have copyright defined. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2011-07-14 07:10:10 EDT

This is not just Java but files in general. The Releng tool already deals with copyrights. Moving there for consideration, though I think a simple regex search/replace would also do the trick in most cases.

Comment 2 Leo Ufimtsev

2014-07-17 09:39:45 EDT

Can you elaborate? 

In the mean time, the copyright tool works in the following way:

- right click a project:
- click "Fix copyright" 

And it goes through the whole project to fix the copy rights on various file formats. 

I'm also working on adding save actions:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=369992

Would that fulfill your request?

Comment 3 David Williams

2014-10-23 11:43:04 EDT

This bug is so old, that I think it should be closed. 

Seems to me the "Releng tool" provides the basic functionality requested. 

Please re-open if I am missing the point and something other than "Releng tool" was intended.