[HIVE-28161] Incorrect Copyright years in META-INF/NOTICE files

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.0.0-beta-1
• Fix Version/s: 4.1.0
• Labels: hive-4.0.1-merged hive-4.0.1-must pull-request-available
• Assignee: Stamatis Zampetakis
• Reporter: Stamatis Zampetakis
• Created: 28/Mar/24 15:00
• Updated: 16/Jun/24 01:47
• Resolved: 01/May/24 12:01

Description

The generated META-INF/NOTICE file which resides inside each jar produced by Hive has incorrect copyright years.

Inside all jars the NOTICE file has the following incorrect content:

Copyright 2020 The Apache Software Foundation

The Copyright statement should include the timespan from the inception of the project to now.

Copyright 2008-2024 The Apache Software Foundation

The problem can be easily seen by inspecting the jar content after building the module or checking the previously published jars in Maven central.

mvn clean install -DskipTests -pl common/
jar xf common/target/hive-common-4.1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar META-INF
cat META-INF/NOTICE 

Hive Common
Copyright 2020 The Apache Software Foundation

This product includes software developed at
The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5169