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commit 0743fce4945cef2625684719adfc6a19f9311821
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri Apr 10 04:47:26 2026 -0500
HACKING: Clarify.
...replacing the lazy term "legal facts" with more meaningful wording.
---
HACKING | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 7925dd6e6..43746bca3 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -164,10 +164,11 @@ Background
In files not encoded in UTF-8, we avoid use of the copyright sign
(Unicode U+00A9). See below regarding "ersatz" copyright symbols.
-* The purpose of a copyright notice is to record legal facts about a
- work. It is not to express acknowledgement of, gratitude about, or
- appreciation for the efforts of contributors, past or present, which
- is better done in documentation--and with explicit expression!
+* The purpose of a copyright notice is to record facts, relevant to a
+ court of law with applicable subject-matter jurisdiction, about a
+ work. It is not to express acknowledgement of, gratitude regarding,
+ or appreciation for the efforts of contributors, past or present,
+ which is better done in documentation--and with explicit expression!
* Copyright protection is a legal monopoly of limited duration and an
economic policy scheme for the purpose of promoting, as the U.S.
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