Added a workflow to keep the help output copyright year current

[nickanderson]

This adds a scheduled workflow that does the remembering: on January 2nd it
bumps the CF_COPYRIGHT and opens the pull request.

[larsewi]

Maybe you could use date directly in configure.ac similar to BUILD_YEAR?

AC_DEFINE(BUILD_YEAR, esyscmd([date +%Y | tr -d '\n']), "Software build year")
 ---snip---
AC_DEFINE(CF_COPYRIGHT, "2023 Northern.tech AS", "Copyright. To be used in help screens")

[larsewi]

Other workflows produce signed / verified commits. Not sure how. But I don't think this approach will not do that.

[nickanderson]

41898282 is the GitHub numeric user ID of the github-actions[bot] account.

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I can switch it to use cfengine/create-pull-requests@v7 I didnt see that and thoguth thismight be better than using someone elses create pull request job.

[nickanderson]

Maybe you could use date directly in configure.ac similar to BUILD_YEAR?

AC_DEFINE(BUILD_YEAR, esyscmd([date +%Y | tr -d '\n']), "Software build year")
 ---snip---
AC_DEFINE(CF_COPYRIGHT, "2023 Northern.tech AS", "Copyright. To be used in help screens")

Yeah, I considered that but I figure that since Herman just updated the string it was desired to have the hard coded date.