If the module is enabled (default), 2D physics works as it did before.
If the module is disabled and no other 2D physics server is registered
(via a module or GDExtension), then we fall back to a dummy
implementation which effectively disables 2D physics functionality (and
a warning is printed).
The dummy 2D physics server can also be selected explicitly, in which
case no warning is printed.
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".
