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| author | Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> | 2025-03-13 21:42:34 +0900 |
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| committer | Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> | 2025-04-22 11:50:26 +0900 |
| commit | 7dec6c9efa627905e5b481e3a0f1fa9df29ec69b (patch) | |
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README: Mention ranges are OK in copyright notices.
Change-Id: I8495c84f9ab462bcc64dae39acca5a8460c4b200
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@@ -108,3 +108,18 @@ but exposes all the API as Scheme. - The [[https://www.gnu.org/s/gsrc/][GNU Source Release Collection]] (GSRC) is a user-land software distribution; unlike Guix, it relies on core tools available on the host system + +* Copyright Notices + +GNU Guix is made available under the GNU GPL version 3 or later license, and +authors retain their copyright. For copyright notices, we adhere to the +guidance documented in (info "(maintain) Copyright Notices"), and explicitly +allow ranges instead of individual years. Here's an example of the preferred +style used for copyright notices in source file headers: + +#+begin_comment +Copyright © 2019-2023, 2025 Your Name <your@email.com> +#+end_comment + +Meaning there were copyright-able changes made for the years 2019, 2020, 2021, +2022, 2023 and 2025. |