[Copyright] Update all copyright headers about rs-matter HOT 8 OPEN

Copyright generally applies at the time of creation. The year clarifies when that creation occurred. Updating the copyright year generally occurs when new creative input was made.

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@kedars ^^^

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@andreilitvin are there any project-chip-wide policies that are being followed by other repos?

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Copyright generally applies at the time of creation. The year clarifies when that creation occurred. Updating the copyright year generally occurs when new creative input was made.

That aligns with my understanding too.

So @ivmarkov the option to choose would be to update the year after the - whenever the particular file is updated.

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@kedars OK just to confirm on 100%:

• Year before - is only updated once - on file creation time
• Year after - is updated each time the file is modified (and we hopefully don't forget that)

Right?

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Let's start with: new files should have the current year (unless copied and pasted file content or rename).

Beyond that, I would like to reduce developer churn work as much as possible while still making lawyers happy. Currently I am not commenting on year changes on existing files, only remarked that if we create a new file we can add the current year.

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Let's start with: new files should have the current year (unless copied and pasted file content or rename).

Beyond that, I would like to reduce developer churn work as much as possible while still making lawyers happy. Currently I am not commenting on year changes on existing files, only remarked that if we create a new file we can add the current year.

Here's a plan forward:

• Don't ad-hoc change some headers (yet)
• Do a regexp replace as follows, on everything:
  • Start year: 2022 (it is 2020 now). The earliest commit in the repo seems to be from Dec 12 2022. Or shall we just do 2023? @kedars Is it true that you guys started in 2022, or do I have it wrong and you've worked in another repo before that?
  • End year: 2024 (it is 2022 now). I think we have touched almost every file either in 2023 (when I did the no-std thing) or in 2024 anyway
• After the change, follow what @andy31415 suggests: bump the beginning year for new files. We can also retro-actively apply this for some files that we do know popped up in 2024 - mostly in the reworked transport, as well as BTP

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Here's a plan forward:

Sounds good to me

Start year: 2022 (it is 2020 now). The earliest commit in the repo seems to be from Dec 12 2022. Or shall we just do 2023? @kedars Is it true that you guys started in 2022, or do I have it wrong and you've worked in another repo before that?

Let's keep it as 2021, I was working on a personal repo since 2021. The initial commit to this repo squashed everything since then into a single commit

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