- they are mostly pointless in all major jurisdictions
- many big corporations and projects already don't use them
- saves us from pointless churn
- git keeps history for us
- the year range is kept in COPYING
checksrc is updated to allow non-year using copyright statements
Closes#10205
If not, reusing an easy handle to do a subsequent transfer would
continue the counter from the previous invoke, which then would make use
of the header API difficult/impossible as the request counter
mismatched.
Add libtest 1947 to verify.
Reported-by: Andrew Lambert
Fixes#9424Closes#9447