DOC: Add copyright waiver to boilerplate and reviewer note to docs

docs/citing.rst

@@ -222,6 +222,30 @@ we recommend to include in your paper.
    </p>
 
 
+Note for reviewers and editors
+------------------------------
+
+The boilerplate text generated by fMRIPrep is intended to allow for clear,
+consistent description of the preprocessing steps used, in order to improve the
+reproducibility of studies.
+We fully intend for it to be copied verbatim, and have released it under the
+`CC0 license <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>`__, dedicating
+it to the public domain in jurisdictions that recognize the concept, and assert
+that we will take no action to enforce copyright in jurisdictions where we
+cannot disclaim it.
+
+We firmly believe that requiring authors to modify this passage will serve **no
+legitimate scientific or literary purpose** and can, in fact, serve only to
+reduce the replicability of the analysis being described by making the
+preprocessing steps less clear.
+
+We recognize that there may be automated plagiarism detection software that
+will flag the boilerplate text.
+We would be happy to discuss potential solutions for annotating boilerplate
+sections of documents to indicate automatic generation, and can update our
+software to make this annotation simpler for authors.
+
+
 Posters
 -------
 

fmriprep/workflows/base.py

@@ -497,6 +497,14 @@ def init_single_subject_wf(
 "FMRIPrep's documentation").
 
 
+### Copyright Waiver
+
+The above boilerplate text was automatically generated by fMRIPrep
+with the express intention that users should copy and paste this
+text into their manuscripts *unchanged*.
+It is released under the [CC0]\
+(https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) license.
+
 ### References
 
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