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website: history: track work on copyright headers updates. 

Without this commit we have no way of tracking the status of files and
we risk making the same verification too many times.

Ideally we also need procedure and/or tools to make sure omissions
don't get in.

So far the work to update some of the headers on some of the files
required to look at multiple git repositories and even tarball
releases, and in some cases it even required good knowledge of the
provenance of the files to reconstruct the proper history.

In contrast the way we track contributions in git makes it much easier
to fix subsequent omissions of people/dates in the copyright headers.

Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
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@ -101,3 +101,32 @@ far we only have a partial code history. Contributions are
welcome. See the [git.md](../../git.md) page about various ways to
contribute to GNU Boot or to contact the project to update the
information in this page.
Verified copyright headers
==========================
So far the copyright headers were verified on the following files:
* build (details in commit 1ccd450fec42ce426a00d075ad9b78a0b8c233ba
"build: Update copyright header.").
* resources/grub/config/grub.cfg (details in commit
2695c97561405741200dc25f520a5ff649b7421f "grub.cfg: Add copyright
header.")
* resources/packages/src/release (details in commit
65c0e57a550e8e6a8d80543585eeed66ad06cb64 "resources: packages: src:
release: Update copyright header.")
Also note that some files are there to stay (like the grub.cfg file
above) but since we took the decision to migrate packages to Guix,
another way to help improve the copyright headers situation is to
migrate packages to Guix and to make sure that the Guix packages have
proper copyright headers.
Since we can add the path of verified files above, it is also possible
to add files that never had any issues.
Some omissions can still manage to skip through code review after the
verification but at least we have the proper git history that enables
us to more easily reconstruct it.