From: Andrei Rybak Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2023 21:33:45 +0000 (+0200) Subject: CONTRIBUTE: drop mention of copyright year ranges X-Git-Tag: curl-8_2_1~8 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3c0a91077c2af4a34f5ac177dd5ec8149ce479d7;p=thirdparty%2Fcurl.git CONTRIBUTE: drop mention of copyright year ranges Year ranges in copyrights were dropped in commits [1] and [2]. Verification of year ranges in copyrights was dropped from script 'scripts/copyright.pl' in commit [3]. However, the corresponding passages in file 'docs/CONTRIBUTE.md' weren't updated. Drop mentions of copyright year ranges from 'docs/CONTRIBUTE.md'. [1] 2bc1d775f (copyright: update all copyright lines and remove year ranges, 2023-01-02) [2] c46761bd8 (tests/http: remove year ranges from copyrights, 2023-03-14) [3] 0e293bacb (copyright.pl: cease doing year verifications, 2023-01-28) Closes #11504 --- diff --git a/docs/CONTRIBUTE.md b/docs/CONTRIBUTE.md index 605e55a5d0..16c126bad5 100644 --- a/docs/CONTRIBUTE.md +++ b/docs/CONTRIBUTE.md @@ -308,12 +308,9 @@ still fine. This means that all files need to have their license and copyright information clearly stated. Ideally by having the standard curl source code header, with -an accurate copyright year range and the SPDX-License-Identifier included. If -the header does not work, you can use a smaller header or add the information -for a specific file to the `.reuse/dep5` file. - -We update copyright year ranges to end on the year of the most recent change -of the individual file. +the SPDX-License-Identifier included. If the header does not work, you can use a +smaller header or add the information for a specific file to the `.reuse/dep5` +file. You can manually verify the copyright and compliance status by running the `./scripts/copyright.pl` script in the root of the git repository.