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@@ -325,7 +325,11 @@ docstrings, log and console text, commit messages, issue text, and replies.
comment style of the file: `Copyright <year> 514 LLC d/b/a OpenGlow` and
`Written by Scott Wiederhold`. Keep the year, or the year range, that
the file already has. The copyright notices of other holders stay
unchanged.
unchanged. Those two lines are for files this project authors: an
outside contributor who writes a new file puts their own name there, or
leaves the lines out, and keeps their copyright in what they wrote.
Editing an existing file changes no header - a contribution is recorded
by its `Signed-off-by` line and by git, not by a copyright line.
- **SPDX.** Every new source file carries an `SPDX-License-Identifier` line
under the license of its repository.