Re: Standardized file headers?

On 4/23/26 3:03 PM, Stavros Macrakis wrote:

> 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.
I’ll use that for the new files I’ve added, even though some of the new 
files are essentially bits of some other file.
>
> 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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