Re: Standardized file headers?

Fair, I guess all caps makes it sound like it's a legal entity of some kind.
Maybe Maxima computer algebra *system*, to reflect what we call it on the
Sourceforge home page.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 5:59 PM Raymond Toy <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
> &#8203;
>

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