What is the copyright scanner?

ICU requires all files checked in to have a current copyright with the current year. Usually this is in a comment at the top of the file. The scanner is looking for "Copyright" and the current year (such as 2009) on the same line, within the first few lines of file data.

A command-line version of the copyright scanner can also be run manually, from http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/tools/trunk/scripts/cpysearch/

Exclusion list

If a file can not contain a copyright, like a binary file, simply add the file's path to the file svn+ssh://source.icu-project.org/repos/icustuff/trunk/src/svnhooks/cpyskip.txt, and check in the file. Changes to this file take effect every 15 minutes, on the quarter hour. You may have to wait for the changes to take effect. After updating cpyskip.txt, you will be able to check in your new file.

The latest copy that the server is using is viewable as http://source.icu-project.org/cpyskip.txt

Exclusion list syntax

The following are some example formats that can be used in cpyskip.txt

Comment

# This is a comment. I love comments.

Path

icu/source/extra/uconv/samples/utf8/chinese-ulysses.txt

Suffix match

A full file path, starting with the module (icu). It will match files which end with ".jar". (Note, it is not a full regular expression.)

Prefix match

icu4j/eclipseProjectMisc/*