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commit bc38826f9d4e8b1a5b0bfbc942bd4a17ceb75784
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Nov 6 14:35:11 2025 -0600
doc/ms.ms.in: Drop ersatz copyright symbol '(C)'.
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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doc/ms.ms.in | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/ms.ms.in b/doc/ms.ms.in
index 8cdf5ce2f..fb156030f 100644
--- a/doc/ms.ms.in
+++ b/doc/ms.ms.in
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
.\" groff -ept -ms
.\" nroff -t -rLL=$(stty size | cut -f2 -d' ')n -ms
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 2001 Larry Kollar
-.\" Copyright (C) 2020-2025 G. Branden Robinson
+.\" Copyright 2001 Larry Kollar
+.\" Copyright 2020-2025 G. Branden Robinson
.\"
.\" This file is part of groff.
.\"
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