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commit 4453a46e18572f205856bbbed5a5078a7cb09004
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Dec 18 10:30:11 2025 -0600
nroff(1): 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):
2018 4ab68de177 **/*.man: Rationalize synopses. (+5)
2018 b447d738fb nroff(1): Fix style and content issues. (+48)
2019 0da230cd81 nroff.1.man: Make editorial fixes. (+2)
2019 4e5439d982 {g,n}roff.1.man: Give assistance to pager users. (+13)
2019 699ac6598d *.[157].man: Save and restore compatibility mode. (+10)
2020 dd725dce80 nroff: Implement -P and -V options. (+12)
2020 0afc013230 man pages: Regularize synopsis style. (+4)
2020 895bf9897e nroff(1): Fix style nits. (+1)
2020 ffddc27a94 [man pages]: Break input lines consistently. (+1)
2020 2219bd22de [nroff]: Recognize -b and -z options. (+2)
2021 7bafea3d92 [man pages]: Remove compatibility save register. (+1)
2021 b4de44f028 [[gnt]roff]: Make usage messages more accurate. (+2)
2021 2b955c571c [nroff]: Fix Savannah #60943. (+13)
2021 57d6b18df3 nroff(1): Add "Files" section. (+4)
2021 ac596dd951 [nroff]: Pass `-c` option to groff. (+4)
2021 ddcd2afb9b [nroff]: Support groff's -R flag to run refer(1). (+1)
2021 6f1d378b51 groff(1),nroff(1): Fix content nit. (+10)
2022 626c83438b [man pages]: Document tty-char.tmac in nroff(1). (+9)
2022 d72b4b7b94 [man pages]: Update summary descriptions. (+2)
2023 a9767ace3d [man pages]: Define page-local `MR` fallback. (+15)
2023 df88abf995 [docs]: Align discussions of "GROFF_BIN_PATH". (+6)
2024 a08908f982 [man]: Revise and expand `SY` and `YS` behavior. (+3)
2024 78394f9f5b [nroff]: Support `-a`, `-D`, `-I`, & `-Z` options. (+8)
2024 10f7322c94 nroff(1): Fix content and style nits. (+3)
Commits other than b447d738fb and a9767ace3d 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 spuriously "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
---
src/roff/nroff/nroff.1.man | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/roff/nroff/nroff.1.man b/src/roff/nroff/nroff.1.man
index 283b83c69..7858818be 100644
--- a/src/roff/nroff/nroff.1.man
+++ b/src/roff/nroff/nroff.1.man
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ for terminal (\[lq]TTY\[rq]) devices
.\" Legal Terms
.\" ====================================================================
.\"
-.\" Copyright 1989-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 1989-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" 2018-2024 G. Branden Robinson
.\"
.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
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