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Remove copyright years from source files
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Description

The legal team says years are not necessary so we can go ahead with it, since it will simplify backporting. Some other projects, including cURL, made similar changes recently.

Also add a Makefile safeguard to not allow new additions of the legacy copyright notice containing a year

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Is it a breaking change?
Perfectly compatible
Issue type
Internal change (not visible to end users)

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c-po created this task.Jun 28 2025, 10:45 AM
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c-po added a comment.Jun 28 2025, 6:53 PM

https://github.com/vyos/vyos-1x/pull/4585

c-po updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 28 2025, 7:04 PM
pasik subscribed.Jun 29 2025, 3:51 PM
c-po mentioned this in rVYOSONEX1478516ae437: T7591: remove copyright years from source files.Jul 3 2025, 1:13 PM
Restricted Repository Identity mentioned this in rVYOSONEX036f08f14a02: Merge pull request #4585 from c-po/copyright-notice.Jul 3 2025, 1:13 PM
c-po moved this task from Need Triage to Completed on the VyOS Rolling board.Jul 6 2025, 6:54 AM
c-po closed this task as Resolved.Jul 6 2025, 6:57 AM
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dmbaturin updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 11 2025, 6:50 PM
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