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Similar to SPDX-License-Identifier, there is a standard way to add copyright notices to source code so update the guidelines so that recommendation is that copyright notices are added using SPDX-FileCopyrightText.

Similar to SPDX-License-Identifier, there is a standard way to add
copyright notices to source code so update the guidelines so that
recommendation is that copyright notices are added using
SPDX-FileCopyrightText.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Cabé <[email protected]>
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@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ We recommend using the following copyright notice:

.. code-block:: C
Copyright The Zephyr Project Contributors
SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright The Zephyr Project Contributors
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would be very helpful if some context and references are added here, something along the lines of what KDE is doing for example https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Licensing

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