Update to GCC copyright assignment policy

[Christopher Dimech]

A file should be kept with the author name, date and changes done by each contributor.

Including this is the source code would make the history too long.  Otherwise, such information
can be put at the end of the file.

----- Christopher Dimech

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> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2021 at 4:44 AM
> From: "Joseph Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
> To: "David Edelsohn" <dje.gcc@gmail.com>
> Cc: "Jakub Jelinek" <jakub@redhat.com>, "GCC Development" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: Update to GCC copyright assignment policy
>
> On Tue, 1 Jun 2021, David Edelsohn via Gcc wrote:
>
> > The copyright author will be listed as "Free Software Foundation,
> > Inc." and/or "The GNU Toolchain Authors", as appropriate.
>
> And copyright notices naming "The GNU Toolchain Authors" should not
> include a date - that's following the recommendations at
> https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/blog/copyright-notices-in-open-source-software-projects/
> for the form of copyright notices in projects with many copyright holders.
>
> --
> Joseph S. Myers
> joseph@codesourcery.com
>