Roy T. Fielding wrote:
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> May I ask why you decided to do that? Are you aware that the
> three characters (c) have no meaning in copyright law, whereas
> the special character © is synonymous with "Copyright"?
Principally so that grep would behave in a sensible way, although one
can argue that searching for "Copyright {prev}" is just as efficient.
Got tired of searching through reams of the string "2008"
> IIRC, Larry pointed that out when we last updated all the
> copyright header docs.
Interesting. So does this nullify the claim, or is it extraneous
noise that yet preserves our claim?
I'm happy to back it out, but there is a release in process with
this particular change.