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<li>Restart Eclipse to pick up the new plugin (shortcut is to choose '''File''' > '''Switch Workspace''' and incidate the same workspace).</li>  
 
<li>Restart Eclipse to pick up the new plugin (shortcut is to choose '''File''' > '''Switch Workspace''' and incidate the same workspace).</li>  
 
<li>Go to '''Window''' > '''Preferences''' > '''Copyright Tool''' to set your copyright preferences.  For IBM committers, the template should appear as follows:  
 
<li>Go to '''Window''' > '''Preferences''' > '''Copyright Tool''' to set your copyright preferences.  For IBM committers, the template should appear as follows:  
<pre>Copyright (c) ${date} IBM Corporation.  
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<pre>/**********************************************
All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials  
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* Copyright (c) ${date} IBM Corporation.  
are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0  
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* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials  
which accompanies this distribution, and is available at  
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* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0  
http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html   
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* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at  
 
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* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html   
Contributors:  
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*
   IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation</pre></li>
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* Contributors:  
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*   IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
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*****************************************************/</pre></li>
 
<li>Set default creation year in the preferences to 2008 and default revision year to 2008.  Click OK to save the preferences.</li>  
 
<li>Set default creation year in the preferences to 2008 and default revision year to 2008.  Click OK to save the preferences.</li>  
 
<li>Switch to the Resource perspective.</li>  
 
<li>Switch to the Resource perspective.</li>  

Revision as of 11:52, 10 January 2008

COSMOS Wiki > COSMOS Development Process

We are legally required to maintain our copyrights as accurately as possible. The Eclipse repository contains a tool that will fix copyrights in your code. It will insert copyrights into any files that are missing them, and will also attempt to insert the additional year for modified files (e.g. "2007, 2008"). To do the latter, the tool compares all files against the last revision from the previous year to see if there were any changes. So even if you didn't change the file for this checkin, it might be fixing the copyright for a previous change in the current year.

Here are the steps to load and run the fix copyrights tool.

  1. Load module org.eclipse.releng.tools from repository /cvsroot/eclipse on dev.eclipse.org.
  2. Export the plugin to your plugins directory by selecting Export... from the popup menu and then Deployable plugins and fragments
  3. Restart Eclipse to pick up the new plugin (shortcut is to choose File > Switch Workspace and incidate the same workspace).
  4. Go to Window > Preferences > Copyright Tool to set your copyright preferences. For IBM committers, the template should appear as follows:
    /**********************************************
    * Copyright (c) ${date} IBM Corporation. 
    * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials 
    * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 
    * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at 
    * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html  
    * 
    * Contributors: 
    *    IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
    *****************************************************/
  5. Set default creation year in the preferences to 2008 and default revision year to 2008. Click OK to save the preferences.
  6. Switch to the Resource perspective.
  7. Select all projects for which you want to run the tool and select Advanced Fix Copyrights from the context menu.
  8. Perform a team synchronization on the changed projects and commit the changes.

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