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Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon Nov 3 01:18:54 2025 -0600
README: 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.[1] 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.
[1] https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf
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diff --git a/README b/README
index 805da02a7..fe40d22b1 100644
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- Copyright (C) 1989-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright 1989-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without
modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided
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