On Jul 2, 2009, at 3:08 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
Roy T. Fielding wrote:
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.
Searching for "Copyright" is what I do.
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?
Noise. We don't even need the line -- copyright exists even without
the notice (unless someone excluded from the right does the authoring,
like US government employees).
I'm happy to back it out, but there is a release in process with
this particular change.
It is now inconsistent with all the other projects, but don't let
that hold back a release.
....Roy
