set correct copyright year for all files

This MR sets the correct copyright year (i.e. the year each file was last changed in) for all files.

Hm. From other projects, I know that they only update the copyright year when modifications to the code in that file are done. We could use some git-cli-magic to find out and set the correct copyright year for each file.

I wrote a script which sets the copyright year in every python file to the year the file was last changed:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
while read -rd $'\0' year file; do
    sed -i "1s/^\(# Copyright \)[[:digit:]]\{4,\}/\1$year/" "$file"
done < <(git ls-files -z \*.py | xargs -0I{} git log -1 -z --format="%ad {}" --date="format:%Y" "{}")

I ran the script on the current master working tree. Should I revert the existing commit in this MR and create a new one or amend the changes to the existing commit? And should I add the script to the repository, maybe in the etc directory or a new scripts directory?

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I ran the script on the current master working tree. Should I revert the existing commit in this MR and create a new one or amend the changes to the existing commit?

I would amend the exisiting commit and force-push to this existing PR.

And should I add the script to the repository, maybe in the etc directory or a new scripts directory?

Hmmm. Why not. I would add it to the /etc directory, maybe in some subdirectory like /etc/scripts.

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