gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.
commit fa658741285dcce779451664482f488d171d7498
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Mar 26 16:52:58 2026 -0500
src/devices/grolj4/grolj4.am: Revise copyright.
...notice.
The provenance of this file is tricky to infer with a straightforward
tool like "git log --follow"; our repository's history seems to think
that the file dates back to groff 1.06 in 1992, despite the grolj4
driver not being added to groff until 1994 and this Automake script not
taking its current form until 2014.
Regardless of its early history, there has been no "legally
significant"[1] commit to this file since Git _thinks_ the file was
born, in commit b04d345ed2, 1 September 1992 by James Clark. Since that
can't be right (see above), and the file's non-blank, non-comment line
count is 15, which just meets the "legal significance" threshold, I'm
conjecturing that its authorship lies mainly with James Clark, who
appears to have written the driver in 1994 (see "ChangeLog.old"), and
Bertrand Garrigues, who ported groff's build system to use GNU Automake
in 2014, and using those dates accordingly. If someone would like to
undertake a finer-grained analysis, be my guest. (In case it helps
detangle the knot, observe that Git thinks the file was renamed multiple
times before and after the groff repository's migration from CVS to
Git[2]: grolj4.am <= preconv.am <= lookbib.am <= Makefile.sub <=
Makefile.init.)
[1] See groff's "HACKING" file, section "Updating Copyright Notices".
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2013-12/msg00033.html
---
src/devices/grolj4/grolj4.am | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/devices/grolj4/grolj4.am b/src/devices/grolj4/grolj4.am
index 79f834a25..4b6bf5cff 100644
--- a/src/devices/grolj4/grolj4.am
+++ b/src/devices/grolj4/grolj4.am
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2014-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 1994-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
#
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