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commit 71ab72adf8e2c762e4698f1ca4e0eb715ca369b5
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon Oct 20 22:26:59 2025 -0500
[groff]: Revise copyright notice in test script.
Identify myself as the copyright holder. I've never executed copyright
assignment paperwork with the FSF, so my "legally significant"[1]
origination of this file in 2021 can't be under the FSF's copyright.
Ratchet back the copyright year range, since no "legally significant"
[ibid.] changes have been made to the file since 2021.
(A question arises in my mind: if 15+ additive lines of "legally
significant" change accumulate over a period of multiple years, which
years, if any, should be added to the copyright notice?)
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.[2] 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.[ibid.] 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.
Drop stump comment after license information.
[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] https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf
---
src/roff/groff/tests/ab-request-works.sh | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/roff/groff/tests/ab-request-works.sh
b/src/roff/groff/tests/ab-request-works.sh
index 68fb9e446..fa99e6c49 100755
--- a/src/roff/groff/tests/ab-request-works.sh
+++ b/src/roff/groff/tests/ab-request-works.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/bin/sh
#
-# Copyright (C) 2021-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2021 G. Branden Robinson
#
# This file is part of groff.
#
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-#
groff="${abs_top_builddir:-.}/test-groff"
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