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Update copyright notices #3658

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As discussed in recent M2internals meetings, we update the main copyright notices to indicate that the copyright is held by the "Macaulay2 Authors" rather than just Dan & Mike.

We also:

  • Remove the old, largely out-of-date M2/Macaulay2/README.in, which generated /usr/share/doc/Macaulay2/README. This file was probably mostly unnoticed. Who would look there?
  • Add a copyright notice to the main README.md in the root directory of the source tree.
  • Markdown-ify M2/LICENSING-NOTES (now M2/LICENSING-NOTES.md) to use tables with links to each of the various libraries and programs. We also add some that were missing and use short identifiers from the SPDX License List for each of the licenses.
  • Add a list of who actually comprises the "Macaulay2 Authors". The list consists of everyone with at least one commit to the d, e, and/or m2 directories, plus a link to the "authors of Macaulay2 packages" documentation page.
  • Bump the latest copyright year to 2025.

Also bump the copyright year to 2025 and replace Dan & Mike w/ "The
Macaulay2 Authors"
| -lreadline | [Readline](https://www.gnu.org/software/readline) | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| -ltbb | [oneTBB](https://uxlfoundation.github.io/oneTBB/) | Apache-2.0 |

Programs we include with our distribution:
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Do we?

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Potentially. I suppose this should be something like "... we may include ..."

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Which distribution includes these? A build target that bundles these programs is not the same as a distribution.

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The RHEL rpms include most (maybe all) of them, since so few are available in the official repos.

M2/LICENSING-NOTES.md Outdated Show resolved Hide resolved
Convert lists of libraries and programs and their licenses to markdown
tables with links.

Switch copyright to "the Macaulay2 Authors", with a list of
authors (everyone who has at least one commit in the d, e, or m2
directories).

[ci skip]
Change copyright holders from Dan/Mike -> Macaulay2 Authors and add a
link to the LICENSING-NOTES file for more info.
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