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commit ceecd503fd09dd93b71f7eb2f131d16899e74c37
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri Nov 14 09:30:15 2025 -0600
src/devices/grops/ps.h: Revise copyright.
Ratchet back ending date of notice to 1991(!!), corresponding to a
"commit" authored by James Clark, which is really just the initial
check-in of this file to our Git repository.
Every commit to this file since then has been below the GNU Maintainers'
Guide's threshold for "legal significance".
(At this point I must more clearly document an assumption that I am
making: that a "change" must constitute a net addition of "lines" to a
file. If a change _deleted_ 15 or more lines, how does the
"originality" of copyright apply? Similarly, if someone makes a
uniform syntactical or spelling change to a file, as one might do with
`sed 's/colour/color/', does that meet the threshold of
copyrightability, let alone the FSF's "legal[] significance", even if
it affects 200 lines of code or documentation?)
[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/devices/grops/ps.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/devices/grops/ps.h b/src/devices/grops/ps.h
index b91c814c0..d01ae011d 100644
--- a/src/devices/grops/ps.h
+++ b/src/devices/grops/ps.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright 1989-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 1989-1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by James Clark ([email protected])
This file is part of groff.
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