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commit 8b6878ec74590377bb5d60028e209c0e5a539156
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri Dec 12 15:47:09 2025 -0600
doc/meref.me.in: Revise copyright notice.
Ratchet back ending year of FSF copyright notice to 2021, reflecting the
date of the last contribution to this file by anyone but me.
Add copyright notice for myself. I have never executed copyright
assignment paperwork with the FSF, so my "legally significant"[1]
changes to this file can't be under the FSF's copyright.
Justification (commit ID, summary, net lines added by commit):
2021 a61cd74ad3 [me]: Clarify breadth of application of `ll` macro. (+15)
2022 51ea75667a doc/meref.me.in: Fix content, style, markup nits. (+26)
2023 e18faa41df doc/meref.me.in: Update and revise. (+16)
2024 d29c266ddc [me]: Add nroff hints for novices to doc sources. (+3)
2024 d887cdf4be [me]: Parameterize super/subscript line ht adjust. (+2)
2024 c39cc30283 doc/meref.me.in: Buy some vees. (+12)
Commits d29c266ddc, d887cdf4be, and c39cc30283 meet the 15-line
threshold taken cumulatively. (The GNU Maintainers' Guide does not
advise for or against a cumulative interpretation. Applying rigidly
simplistic rules supporting or opposing such an interpretation each lead
to seeming absurdities. On the one hand, 15 different minor changes,
like incrementing an integer, to a single line of code--or code
comment--in the source file could become "legally significant". On the
other hand, if a person contributes a net _deletion_ of lines overall,
perhaps by eliminating dead code or withdrawn functionality, they could
prevent recognition of their own contribution(s) of any size as "legally
significant" as long as those changes added fewer than <lines deleted> +
15. Counting lines of code may be as poor a metric of copyrightability
as it is of programmer productivity.[2])
[1] "A change of just a few lines (less than 15 or so) is not legally
significant for copyright." Conversely, >= 15 lines would be.
https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Legally-Significant.html
[2]
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335535826_The_End_to_the_Myth_of_Individual_Programmer_Productivity
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doc/meref.me.in | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/meref.me.in b/doc/meref.me.in
index a1784cbe1..07f87244e 100644
--- a/doc/meref.me.in
+++ b/doc/meref.me.in
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
.\" Copyright (c) 1986, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
.\"
-.\" Copyright 1989-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 1989-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" 2021-2024 G. Branden Robinson
.\"
.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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