COPYRIGHT file template.
This COPYRIGHT file tracks the copyright claims of code contributors. The COPYRIGHT file should be placed at the root of a repository.
When there is more than one copyright holder, include each copyright holder on a separate line, along with the years that institution established copyright. Support for multiple copyright holders isn't directly part of the Cookiecutter template.
For more information about the COPYRIGHT file, see the Developer Guide.
The year, or years that the named institution made contributions.
For consecutive years, use a dash (2016-2018).
For nonconsecutive years, use a comma (2016, 2018).
Legal name of the institution that claims copyright. See the Developer Guide section Standard institutional copyrights for a list of institution names.
The Stack license preamble templates refer to the existence of a COPYRIGHT file: