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commit 5d777599d577f13f129831b5628844036bacde20
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon Dec 29 14:05:44 2025 -0600
[chem]: Simplify `--version` output.
* contrib/chem/chem.pl Drop `copyright` scalar; see below. Bump
revision or "micro" portion of version number.
(version): Stop reporting copyright and license notice after version
disclosure. No other program groff installs, not even others authored
by Bernd Warken, handles `--version` in this way, except for the
namesake program groff(1) itself.
nroff(1) and pdfmom(1), which _wrap_ groff(1), do cause emission of
these notices when given a `--version` argument, but only by dint of
their function as wrappers.
I see no reason to similarly change `groff --version` output; _as_ the
namesake of the project/package/distribution, a user might reasonably
seek to discover the provenance of an installed groff via that means.
---
contrib/chem/ChangeLog | 9 +++++++++
contrib/chem/chem.pl | 14 ++++----------
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/chem/ChangeLog b/contrib/chem/ChangeLog
index a4cf2a512..ad2dc6af3 100644
--- a/contrib/chem/ChangeLog
+++ b/contrib/chem/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2025-12-29 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
+
+ * chem.pl: Drop `copyright` scalar; see below. Bump revision or
+ "micro" portion of version number.
+ (version): Stop reporting copyright and license notice
+ after version disclosure. No other program groff installs, not
+ even others authored by Bernd Warken, handles `--version` in
+ this way, except for the namesake program groff(1) itself.
+
2025-12-29 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
* examples/122: Rename this directory...
diff --git a/contrib/chem/chem.pl b/contrib/chem/chem.pl
index 856874c1e..684c502eb 100644
--- a/contrib/chem/chem.pl
+++ b/contrib/chem/chem.pl
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
#!@PERL@
# chem - a groff preprocessor for producing chemical structure diagrams
-
-my $copyright = 'Copyright 2006-2014, 2022'
- . ' Free Software Foundation, Inc.';
+#
+# Copyright 2006-2014, 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
# Written by Bernd Warken <[email protected]>.
#
# This file is part of chem.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ my $copyright = 'Copyright 2006-2014, 2022'
# settings
########################################################################
-my $chem_version = '1.0.6';
+my $chem_version = '1.0.7';
my $groff_version = 'DEVELOPMENT';
require v5.6;
@@ -1215,12 +1215,6 @@ EOF
sub version {
print <<EOF;
$prog (groff $groff_version) $chem_version
-$copyright
-License GPLv2: GNU GPL version 2
-<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html>
-This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
-There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
-EOF
}
1;
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