gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.
commit 9ada7f33873ac91534fb0a6df0ae4606903b3f17
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Mar 26 14:32:39 2026 -0500
src/devices/grolbp/grolbp.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 grolbp
driver not being contributed to groff until 2000 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 17, which is over the "legal significance" threshold, I'm
conjecturing that its authorship lies mainly with Francisco Andrés
Verdú, who contributed grolbp in 2000, 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]: grolbp.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/grolbp/grolbp.am | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/devices/grolbp/grolbp.am b/src/devices/grolbp/grolbp.am
index 872d76ebb..f9379166d 100644
--- a/src/devices/grolbp/grolbp.am
+++ b/src/devices/grolbp/grolbp.am
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2014-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2000-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
#
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