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commit 4a26675e9825d186823af13052138d91332b55d3
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon May 11 00:58:20 2026 -0500
[gxditview]: Revise *.am file copyright notice.
src/devices/xditview/xditview.am: Ratchet back ending year of FSF
copyright notice to 2014, reflecting its date as of the last "legally
significant"[1] contribution to this file by anyone, which was commit
cfceb70b80, 2014-08-24, by Bertrand Garrigues.
In my earlier analysis and update, commit 3bbf7b665d of 28 November, I
undertook a "cumulative" approach. I now feel that to be an even more
tedious process than the non-cumulative one.
This doesn't mean I disclaim any copyright that attaches to my 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".
Drop my copyright notice accordingly.
[1] See groff's "HACKING" file, section "Updating Copyright Notices".
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src/devices/xditview/xditview.am | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/devices/xditview/xditview.am b/src/devices/xditview/xditview.am
index 04e959064..1f51d91d0 100644
--- a/src/devices/xditview/xditview.am
+++ b/src/devices/xditview/xditview.am
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2014-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-# 2021-2024 G. Branden Robinson
+# Copyright 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
#
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