gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.
commit 228ac477e0ebe50f774bdc0f17a81027ac407a98
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Dec 18 10:34:45 2025 -0600
src/roff/nroff/nroff.am: Revise copyright notice.
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):
2020 dd725dce80 nroff: Implement -P and -V options. (+20)
2025 5f9c6a0329 [nroff]: Use a good shell if one is available. (+1)
Commit dd725dce80 meets the threshold. Does further "legal
significance" attach to the other commit? Let's say one had a rule that
a further increment of 15 lines (manifesting "legal significance") were
required to justify incrementing the year in the copyright notice. Does
making a single "legally significant" commit reset the significant line
counter to zero, or do the contributed lines in excess of 15 count
toward the next "batch" of legal significance? (Concretely, given the
two commits above, am I 6 lines toward renewed legal significance, or
only 1?)
Alternatively, one a contributor has established "legal significance",
do we bump the copyright date forever more even their further
contributions comprise only one line? (Common GNU practice, relying on
gnulib scripts, suggests the latter, except that the further
contribution threshold is assumed to be zero. There may be a further
assumption that the FSF is the only credited copyright holder. See our
"HACKING" file.)
[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
---
src/roff/nroff/nroff.am | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/roff/nroff/nroff.am b/src/roff/nroff/nroff.am
index 65c271114..62a0f343a 100644
--- a/src/roff/nroff/nroff.am
+++ b/src/roff/nroff/nroff.am
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-# Copyright 2014-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# 2020-2025 G. Branden Robinson
#
# This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
#
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