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CHEF-30536 Update and standardize copyright notices to Progress Software Corporation - copyright_update - #267

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This PR updates copyright notices from Chef Software and Opscode to Progress Software Corporation as part of the repository standardization effort.

Automated Changes

  • Updated Opscode, Chef, and Progress copyright notices to use Progress Software Corporation current language
  • Applied year range: 2015-2025 reflecting our understanding of repo-specific activity
  • Preserved original formatting and comment styles

Manual Changes Required

⚠️ This PR requires manual intervention for the following files:

  • COPYRIGHT.md:1 - adjust-copyright-file
  • README.md:1 - adjust-readme

Please review these locations and make appropriate manual edits.

No Other Changes Intended

  • No change to Author, Contributor, or Maintainer information
  • No change to non-PSC copyright holders

@clintoncwolfe clintoncwolfe added the oss-standards Related to OSS Repository Standardization label Feb 16, 2026
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nikhil2611 force-pushed the oss-standards/copyright-update-20260216-130409 branch from 905b89a to 312f316 Compare August 17, 2026 09:08
Signed-off-by: Nandan Hegde <220186393+nandanhegde73@users.noreply.github.com>
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Pull request overview

This PR is part of the repository-wide copyright standardization effort, adding a dedicated COPYRIGHT.md file and linking to it from the README.

Changes:

  • Added COPYRIGHT.md with a standardized Progress Software Corporation copyright notice.
  • Added a new “Copyright” section to README.md linking to COPYRIGHT.md.

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Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

File Description
README.md Adds a new section linking to the repository copyright file.
COPYRIGHT.md Introduces a standardized single-line copyright notice.

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# Copyright
See [COPYRIGHT.md](./COPYRIGHT.md).
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limitations under the License.
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