Hi, On Sun, 03 Dec 2023 at 14:09, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it should be avoided as well, the long list of copyrights are > already a bit messy to maintain across trees :-). In addition to the current mess, we also keep Copyright header even if the code holding such Copyright had been removed since. Legally speaking, I think – although I am not totally sure – the copyright applies to the current source code and not to the history of additions. > info '(maintain) Legally Significant' offers as advice that changes of > 15 lines or less or not legally significant for copyright. For the interested reader, it comes from the package ’gnu-standards’, also online: https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Legally-Significant.html#Legally-Significant Cheers, simon
