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commit 87de2d3b1ba41a3097c277405f367e796710d1bc
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Nov 6 01:56:57 2025 -0600
[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 2024 (and revisions in 2025) can't be under
the FSF's copyright.
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.
[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/check-delimiter-validity.sh | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/roff/groff/tests/check-delimiter-validity.sh
b/src/roff/groff/tests/check-delimiter-validity.sh
index 359d8a07c..5db8a0692 100755
--- a/src/roff/groff/tests/check-delimiter-validity.sh
+++ b/src/roff/groff/tests/check-delimiter-validity.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/bin/sh
#
-# Copyright (C) 2024-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2024-2025 G. Branden Robinson
#
# This file is part of groff.
#
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