As many open source projects have started doing it, we're removing the
current year from the copyright notice, so that we don't need to bump
it every year.
It seems like only the first year of publication is technically
relevant for copyright notices, and even that seems to be something
that many companies stopped listing altogether (in a version controlled
codebase, the commits are a much better source of date of publication
than a hardcoded copyright statement).
We also now list Godot Engine contributors first as we're collectively
the current maintainers of the project, and we clarify that the
"exclusive" copyright of the co-founders covers the timespan before
opensourcing (their further contributions are included as part of Godot
Engine contributors).
Also fixed "cf." Frenchism - it's meant as "refer to / see".
Backported from #70885.
Most frames there will be no change in project settings, and it makes no sense to read settings every frame in case of changes, as a large number of string compares are involved.
This PR adds a signal to ProjectSettings that can be subscribed to in order to keep local settings up to date with ProjectSettings.
In addition a function `ProjectSettings::has_changes()` is provided for objects outside the signal system (e.g. Rasterizers).
Rémi Verschelde
Haoyu Qiu
lawnjelly
Michael Alexsander