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commit 6874aaddc4fb767396b126875b1f03a3b505b4e0
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sat Sep 13 07:38:15 2025 -0500
tmac/an.tmac: Revise copyright notice.
Add a copyright notice for myself. I've never executed copyright
assignment paperwork with the FSF, so my "legally significant"[1]
changes to this file in 2020-2025[2] can't be under the FSF's copyright.
(I retain an FSF copyright notice corresponding to all changes not
authored by me [even where in a given year no such individual change
meets the aforementioned threshold of "legal significance"--maybe I
shouldn't in this case], because I don't know who _has_ filed copyright
assignment paperwork with the FSF; I know only that I haven't.)
Drop ersatz '(C)' copyright symbol. Software developers have long
labored under the no-longer-correct misconception that omitting a
copyright symbol from one's notice was a fatal defect that effectively
placed the work in the public domain. That stopped being true as of 1
March 1989.[3] Further, prior to guidance issued by the U.S. Copyright
Office in the decades since, the use of "(C)" as a substitute for a
copyright sign _may not have sufficed_ to prevent the copyright notice
from being regarded as defective. The Copyright Office, then and now,
prefers the abbreviation "copr." when © is typographically
unavailable.[3] Nowadays, its advice is that "c" (note lowercase) is an
"acceptable variant", that _may_ retain the efficacy of the copyright
notice. The word "copyright", spelled out in full, also suffices per
that resource, and is already present in this notice.
[1] "A change of just a few lines (less than 15 or so) is not legally
significant for copyright." Conversely, >= 15 lines would be.
https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Legally-Significant.html
[2] Here is a qualifying commit from each calendar year in the range,
produced with the aid of `git --log --stat --follow`.
commit 54fb0303cfd59873dd9dc8aab3a47f1e7eff1341
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
Date: Tue Jul 15 23:15:56 2025 -0500
[man]: Fix Savannah #67363 (2/4).
tmac/an.tmac | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
commit d1a148f95cbf1ecd21c897e8882817e9f7ee371d
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
Date: Sat Jan 27 16:54:10 2024 -0600
tmac/an.tmac: Refactor (an*bookmark*DEVICE).
tmac/an.tmac | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
commit 5485e3b7f1be2956e2067d572c6ce8fd5c036fc1
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
Date: Fri Aug 4 09:28:55 2023 -0500
[man]: Deprecate `SB` macro.
tmac/an.tmac | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
commit 478494e32112aabaa04f8314b5305c7bf6ea1689
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Dec 12 10:31:19 2022 -0600
[man, mdoc]: Fix Savannah #63500.
tmac/an.tmac | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
commit 8578254c09b9fd66cad59353caae479240037cbf
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
Date: Tue Oct 26 16:15:32 2021 +1100
[man]: Abbreviate the inside footer if necessary.
tmac/an.tmac | 66
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
[between the foregoing commit and the next, the file was renamed]
commit 25d2a812faf52e4d952769920ccfbe5e61cb1b43
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
Date: Sat Nov 14 13:25:26 2020 +1100
tmac/an-old.tmac: Add style checks.
tmac/an-old.tmac | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
[3] https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf
---
tmac/an.tmac | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tmac/an.tmac b/tmac/an.tmac
index c39b3cefd..56003d181 100644
--- a/tmac/an.tmac
+++ b/tmac/an.tmac
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
.\" groff implementation of man(7) package
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 1989-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 1989-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" 2020-2025 G. Branden Robinson
.\" Written by James Clark ([email protected])
.\" Enhanced by: Werner Lemberg <[email protected]>
.\" Larry Kollar <[email protected]>
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