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commit bbd2044fee8757c0579914c6b984574b804ae496
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue Apr 28 23:04:33 2026 -0500
src/roff/troff/reg.cpp: Revise copyright notice.
...mine specifically, to narrow the date range. In my earlier analysis
and update, commit 46d74078b1 of 30 November, I undertook a "cumulative"
approach. I now feel that to be an even more tedious process than the
non-cumulative one, and it's not warranted here since as noted then, I
already had 3 commits to this file that each met the "legal
significance" threshold.[1]
This doesn't mean I disclaim any copyright that attaches to my pre-2024
work on this file; I simply want the copyright notice to reflect a
consistent analytical approach. (In particular, I wish to avoid any
appearance of applying a more generous standard to my own contributions
than to others'.)
I would reiterate that a "cumulative" approach might still be warranted
in cases where a person makes changes that subjective consensus among
the community of groff developers finds substantial, and yet their
individual commits reliably escape the crude numeric threshold that the
GNU Project maintains for "legal significance".
Narrow my notice to years 2024-2025 accordingly.
Justification (year, commit ID, summary, net lines added by commit):
2025 5dcf31ee54 [troff]: `pnr` request reports autoincr amounts. (+28)
2024 13866fdf0b [troff]: `pnr` request now accepts arguments. (+15)
2024 2f6a72b9e3 [troff]: Exercise warning category "missing" more. (+41)
[1] See groff's "HACKING" file, section "Updating Copyright Notices".
---
src/roff/troff/reg.cpp | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/roff/troff/reg.cpp b/src/roff/troff/reg.cpp
index 561039ae1..abb3df573 100644
--- a/src/roff/troff/reg.cpp
+++ b/src/roff/troff/reg.cpp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/* Copyright 1989-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- 2021-2025 G. Branden Robinson
+ 2024-2025 G. Branden Robinson
Written by James Clark ([email protected])
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