Year Change

This article collects the things we used to do before the first release in a new year. It is, however, out of date: we no longer routinely update every source file's copyright headers, although some of the steps below may still be performed.

Helper snippets

find . -name 'LICENSE*' -exec perl -p -i.bak -e 's/Copyright ({4}) The Qt Company Ltd./Copyright © 2015 The Qt Company Ltd./' {} git grep 2014 | grep -v -F '''

All modules

LICENSE.*

qtbase

Following files contains the user-visible year as part of the copyright information:

doc/global/config.qdocconf doc/global/html-footer.qdocconf doc/global/html-footer-online.qdocconf doc/global/qt-module-defaults-online.qdocconf src/corelib/kernel/qtcore_eval.cpp src/corelib/global/qlibraryinfo.cpp src/tools/qdbuscpp2xml/qdbuscpp2xml.cpp src/tools/qdbusxml2cpp/qdbusxml2cpp.cpp src/tools/qlalr/cppgenerator.cpp src/tools/qdoc/doc/qdoc-manual-markups.qdoc src/tools/qdoc/doc/qdoc-manual-qdocconf.qdoc src/widgets/dialogs/qmessagebox.cpp

qtools

src/assistant/assistant/mainwindow.cpp src/designer/src/designer/versiondialog.cpp src/linguist/linguist/mainwindow.cpp src/linguist/lrelease/lrelease.1 src/linguist/lupdate/lupdate.1 src/qconfig/main.cpp src/qdbus/qdbusviewer/mainwindow.cpp

qtdoc

doc/src/legal/fdl.qdoc doc/src/legal/lgpl.qdoc doc/src/modules.qdoc