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Update copyright notices #3658
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Also bump the copyright year to 2025 and replace Dan & Mike w/ "The Macaulay2 Authors"
M2/LICENSING-NOTES.md
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| -lreadline | [Readline](https://www.gnu.org/software/readline) | GPL-3.0-or-later | | ||
| -ltbb | [oneTBB](https://uxlfoundation.github.io/oneTBB/) | Apache-2.0 | | ||
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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.
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]
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Change copyright holders from Dan/Mike -> Macaulay2 Authors and add a link to the LICENSING-NOTES file for more info.
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:
/usr/share/doc/Macaulay2/README
. This file was probably mostly unnoticed. Who would look there?README.md
in the root directory of the source tree.