Re: Standardized file headers?

Raymond Toy <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:59:23 -0700

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On 4/23/26 9:41 AM, Stavros Macrakis wrote:

> Agreed with Ray that minimal is best.
>
> Copyright notices haven't been needed since 1989 (Berne convention). 
> As I said, the main value of the header is to inform people that the 
> work is copyrighted and licensed under the GPL. From that perspective, 
> a one-liner like this is probably sufficient for all files, old or new:
>
> ;;; This file is part of the Maxima Computer Algebra Project 
> (https://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/)
> ;;; Maxima is copyrighted by its authors and licensed under the GNU 
> General Public License.
> ;;; See COPYING and AUTHORS for details.
This works for me. Not sure how Robert feels about “Maxima Computer 
Algebra Project”. There may not be any formal “Maxima Project”, but I 
find that to be a good description of the loose collection of people 
working on Maxima and the corresponding code and info referenced from 
the Maxima website.
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