update-copyright.py for binutils

[Alan Modra]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 10:10:11AM -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-01-05 at 00:08 +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> > This is a modified form of gcc's contrib/update-copyright.py.
> > It's what I've been using over the last couple of years to update our
> > copyright years.
> 
> FYI, many GNU tools are using the update-copyright utility from gnulib
> to manage this:
> 
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/build-aux/update-copyright

Yeah, that one won't work for binutils or gcc.  There are a bunch of
files with copyright statements that we don't want to update for
various reasons.  Also, the binutils utility updates both the file
comment copyright date and the code emitting the copyright notice in
--version output.

> Maybe these could be merged somehow.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM