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commit 76178e0f297762e549c7b047568e2a479e9f1739
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri Nov 14 08:02:19 2025 -0600
[grops]: 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
---
src/devices/grops/grops.1.man | 2 +-
src/devices/grops/grops.am | 2 +-
src/devices/grops/ps.cpp | 2 +-
src/devices/grops/ps.h | 2 +-
src/devices/grops/psrm.cpp | 2 +-
5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/devices/grops/grops.1.man b/src/devices/grops/grops.1.man
index 7e4173f12..97f07e24a 100644
--- a/src/devices/grops/grops.1.man
+++ b/src/devices/grops/grops.1.man
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ output driver for PostScript
.\" Legal Terms
.\" ====================================================================
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 1989-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 1989-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\"
.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
diff --git a/src/devices/grops/grops.am b/src/devices/grops/grops.am
index e1d2fcb9a..5cc7144dc 100644
--- a/src/devices/grops/grops.am
+++ b/src/devices/grops/grops.am
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2014-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2014-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This file is part of groff.
#
diff --git a/src/devices/grops/ps.cpp b/src/devices/grops/ps.cpp
index a3b04bf5c..954e2fa5c 100644
--- a/src/devices/grops/ps.cpp
+++ b/src/devices/grops/ps.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1989-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 1989-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by James Clark ([email protected])
This file is part of groff.
diff --git a/src/devices/grops/ps.h b/src/devices/grops/ps.h
index e1ca84eab..b91c814c0 100644
--- a/src/devices/grops/ps.h
+++ b/src/devices/grops/ps.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1989-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 1989-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by James Clark ([email protected])
This file is part of groff.
diff --git a/src/devices/grops/psrm.cpp b/src/devices/grops/psrm.cpp
index 7c25c239b..48c8296ff 100644
--- a/src/devices/grops/psrm.cpp
+++ b/src/devices/grops/psrm.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1989-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 1989-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by James Clark ([email protected])
This file is part of groff.
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