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commit 5df41dc0bc41e4cf4df6c5066460505d815066a9
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sun Nov 9 06:18:19 2025 -0600
tmac/tmac.am: 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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tmac/tmac.am | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tmac/tmac.am b/tmac/tmac.am
index d03ab3b9a..3e1b0f82a 100644
--- a/tmac/tmac.am
+++ b/tmac/tmac.am
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-# Copyright (C) 1989-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 1989-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
# Written by James Clark <[email protected]>
# Automake migration by Bertrand Garrigues
# <[email protected]>
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