From: W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:43:03 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Add update-copyright post.
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Add update-copyright post.
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+[[!meta  title="update-copyright"]]
+[[!template id="gitrepo" repo="update-copyright"]]
+
+A few years ago I was getting tired of having missing or out-of-date
+copyright blurbs in packages that I was involved with (old license
+text, missing authors, etc.).  This is important stuff, but not the
+kind of thing that is fun to maintain by hand.  I wrote a script for
+[bugs everywhere][be] that automated the process, using the version
+control system to extract lists of authors and dates for each file.
+The script was great, so I ported it into a few other projects I was
+involved in.
+
+This month I realized that it would be much easier to just break the
+script out into its own package, and only maintain a config file in
+each of the projects that use it.  I don't know why this didn't occur
+to me years ago :p.  Anyhow, here it is!  Enjoy.
+
+The `README`, with usage details, is posted on the [PyPI page][pypi].
+
+[be]: http://bugseverywhere.org/
+[pypi]: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/update-copyright/
+
+[[!tag tags/code]]
+[[!tag tags/programming]]
+[[!tag tags/pypi]]
+[[!tag tags/python]]