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Consider adding a copyright notice #105621
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In #43498, the copyright notice reading "Copyright (c) 2015 The Rust Project
Developers" was stripped from the MIT license. This was done because there is no legal entity named "The Rust Project Developers" holding the copyright. However, this implies that groups who aren't legal entities don't deserve attribution, which I don't think is true. Also, this might be a license violation, since most rust developers never agreed to the removal. Therefore, I'd like to propose adding the following copyright notice:
Copyright <year> various Rust Project
Developers
This could also be interpreted as a violation of the license of pre-2015 code, as it's not exactly the copyright notice required, but that would also mean that changing the year is a license violation, yet most projects keep the year up-to-date.