Re: copyright years: mass-update every January 1

[Joel E. Denny]

On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Jim Meyering wrote:

> Joel E. Denny wrote:

> > I'd like to use this in Bison.  Would you consider contributing
> > build-aux/update-copyright to gnulib so we don't maintain separate copies?
> 
> Sure.

Thanks.  I'll watch for that.  In the meantime, I'll probably import a 
copy into Bison.

> First, here's a change to catch the extra cases you noted,
> but without concatenating lines.

> diff --git a/build-aux/update-copyright b/build-aux/update-copyright
> index 42579c2..9039b7c 100755
> --- a/build-aux/update-copyright
> +++ b/build-aux/update-copyright
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> -#!/usr/bin/perl -w -pi
> +#!/usr/bin/perl -0777 -pi

You're still missing copyrights containing newline followed by a comment 
sequence.  For example, m4/lib-check.m4.