THANKS.md->CONTRIBUTORS.md define "Contributors to the Libical project"

Rename THANKS.md to CONTRIBUTORS.md and define what we mean by
"Contributors to the Libical project" for Copyright purposes.

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ repos:
   rev: v2.3.0
   hooks:
   - id: codespell
+    exclude: ^(CONTRIBUTORS.md)
 - repo: https://github.com/cheshirekow/cmake-format-precommit
   rev: v0.6.13
   hooks:

THANKS.md → CONTRIBUTORS.md

@@ -1,9 +1,23 @@
-# Thank Yous
+# Contributors
 
-There are now far too many contributors to libical to list here.
-Thanks to everyone involved!
+The Libical project was founded in 1999 (or perhaps earlier) by Eric Busboom <[email protected]>.
 
-From pre-2015 (the first 15 years) we recognize:
+We use the term "Contributors to the Libical project" to indicate the current active developers,
+to include and not limited to:
+
+* Allen Winter <[email protected]> (Maintainer)
+* Eric Busboom <[email protected]> (Founder)
+* Ken Murchison <[email protected]>
+* Kent Sutherland <[email protected]>
+* Markus Minichmayr <[email protected]>
+* Milan Crha <[email protected]>
+* Corentin Noël <[email protected]>
+
+There are now far too many Libical contributors to list here.
+See the commit history for the complete list.
+
+From pre-2015 (the first 15 years) we recognize these people who contributed by means
+outside of a version control system:
 
 * Allan Clark <[email protected]> for testing libical against UnixWare.
 

README.md

@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ and protocol data units. The iCalendar specification describes how
 calendar clients can communicate with calendar servers so users can
 store their calendar data and arrange meetings with other users.
 
+Thanks to our [contributors](CONTRIBUTORS.md).
+
 ## RFCs
 
 See [RFC calendar standards](docs/rfcs.md) for list of RFCs supported by this library.

REUSE.toml

@@ -5,42 +5,42 @@ SPDX-PackageDownloadLocation = "https://github.com/libical/libical"
 
 #misc documentation
 [[annotations]]
-path = ["Install.txt", "README.md", "THANKS.md", "ReleaseNotes.txt", "book.toml", "docs/**.md", "examples/access-usecases.txt", "src/Net-ICal-Libical/README.txt", "src/php/README.txt", "src/Net-ICal-Libical/MANIFEST", "src/Net-ICal-Libical/netical_wrap.doc"]
+path = ["Install.txt", "README.md", "CONTRIBUTORS.md","ReleaseNotes.txt", "book.toml", "docs/**.md", "examples/access-usecases.txt", "src/Net-ICal-Libical/README.txt", "src/php/README.txt", "src/Net-ICal-Libical/MANIFEST", "src/Net-ICal-Libical/netical_wrap.doc"]
 precedence = "aggregate"
-SPDX-FileCopyrightText = "Copyright Contributors to the libical project"
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText = "1999 Contributors to the Libical project"
 SPDX-License-Identifier = "LGPL-2.1-only OR MPL-2.0"
 
 #tool configuration files
 [[annotations]]
-path = ["REUSE.toml", ".clang-format", ".clang-tidy", ".cmake-format.py", ".codespellrc", ".editorconfig", ".dir-locals.el", ".gitattributes", ".gitignore", ".krazy", ".markdownlint.json", ".pre-commit-config.yaml", ".pylintrc", ".pep8", ".github/workflows/build.yml", ".shellcheckrc", "vcpkg.json"]
+path = ["REUSE.toml", ".clang-format", ".clang-tidy", ".cmake-format.py", ".codespellrc", ".editorconfig", ".dir-locals.el", ".gitattributes", ".gitignore", ".krazy", ".markdownlint.json", ".pre-commit-config.yaml", ".pylintrc", ".pep8", ".github/workflows/*.yml", ".shellcheckrc", "vcpkg.json"]
 precedence = "aggregate"
-SPDX-FileCopyrightText = "Copyright Contributors to the libical project"
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText = "1999 Contributors to the Libical project"
 SPDX-License-Identifier = "BSD-3-Clause"
 
 #other not-easy-to-comment source files
 [[annotations]]
 path = ["src/libical-glib/ICalGLib.metadata.in", "src/libical-glib/tools/header-structure-boilerplate-template", "src/libical-glib/tools/source-structure-boilerplate-template", "docs/reference/libical-glib/libical-glib-docs.sgml.in", "src/Net-ICal-Libical/netical_wrap.c", "src/libical/qsort_gen.c"]
 precedence = "aggregate"
-SPDX-FileCopyrightText = "Copyright Contributors to the libical project"
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText = "1999 Contributors to the Libical project"
 SPDX-License-Identifier = "LGPL-2.1-only OR MPL-2.0"
 
 #timezones
 [[annotations]]
 path = "zoneinfo/**"
 precedence = "aggregate"
-SPDX-FileCopyrightText = "Copyright Contributors to the libical project"
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText = "1999 Contributors to the Libical project"
 SPDX-License-Identifier = "CC0-1.0"
 
 #design data
 [[annotations]]
 path = "design-data/**"
 precedence = "aggregate"
-SPDX-FileCopyrightText = "Copyright Contributors to the libical project"
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText = "1999 Contributors to the Libical project"
 SPDX-License-Identifier = "LGPL-2.1-only OR MPL-2.0"
 
 #testing data
 [[annotations]]
 path = ["test-data/**", "src/test/**.out", "src/test/**.ics", "src/test/**.txt", "src/Net-ICal-Libical/test-data/**"]
 precedence = "aggregate"
-SPDX-FileCopyrightText = "Copyright Contributors to the libical project"
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText = "1999 Contributors to the Libical project"
 SPDX-License-Identifier = "LGPL-2.1-only OR MPL-2.0"

docs/SUMMARY.md

@@ -16,6 +16,6 @@
 
 -----------
 
-[Contributors](../THANKS.md)
+[Contributors](../CONTRIBUTORS.md)
 
 <!-- markdownlint-enable MD025 -->