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  • Remove copyright notices from individual files;
  • Update the NOTICE file to include the year of initial publication and the year of the latest change;
  • Remove the IDEA template for adding notices to every file.

* Remove copyright notices from individual files;
* Update the NOTICE file to include the year of initial publication
  and the year of the latest change;
* Remove the IDEA template for adding notices to every file.
@dkhalanskyjb dkhalanskyjb marked this pull request as ready for review January 18, 2024 14:23
@dkhalanskyjb dkhalanskyjb requested a review from qwwdfsad January 18, 2024 14:23
LICENSE.txt Outdated
Copyright 2000-2020 JetBrains s.r.o. and Kotlin Programming Language contributors.
Copyright 2016-2024 JetBrains s.r.o. and Kotlin Programming Language contributors.
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This file should not be modified from its original source. This is the part of the license that provides the template for you to apply somewhere else in the project.

From the paragraph above:

attach the following boilerplate notice, with the fields enclosed by brackets "[]" replaced with your own identifying information

This "attach" is usually done in the README or a NOTICE file with the years and copyright holder substituted in, but this line in this file should still contain the original template.

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I thought it was okay to edit the part of LICENSE after "END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS", but since we do have NOTICE, I guess there's no reason to do so.

We check a classfile to match verbatim to make sure it doesn't
change unexpectedly, and removing the copyright triggered the
check, as the line numbers of the functions (which are compiled
into the classfile) changed.
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Thanks for the effort!

Please refer to LegalCZ-6871 in the squashed commit message so the motivation, historic notes and legal explanation are preserved

@dkhalanskyjb dkhalanskyjb merged commit 7c34ebc into develop Jan 25, 2024
@dkhalanskyjb dkhalanskyjb deleted the remove-copyrights branch January 25, 2024 13:38
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