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commit f284cfc98917a301f66e0b2653c8dfe2b1710330
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri Nov 14 10:08:38 2025 -0600
[pic]: 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/preproc/pic/common.cpp | 2 +-
src/preproc/pic/common.h | 2 +-
src/preproc/pic/lex.cpp | 2 +-
src/preproc/pic/main.cpp | 2 +-
src/preproc/pic/object.cpp | 2 +-
src/preproc/pic/object.h | 2 +-
src/preproc/pic/output.h | 2 +-
src/preproc/pic/pic.1.man | 2 +-
src/preproc/pic/pic.am | 2 +-
src/preproc/pic/pic.h | 2 +-
src/preproc/pic/pic.ypp | 2 +-
src/preproc/pic/position.h | 2 +-
src/preproc/pic/tests/passes-through-input-with-eighth-bit-set.sh | 2 +-
src/preproc/pic/tests/polygon-command-works.sh | 2 +-
14 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/preproc/pic/common.cpp b/src/preproc/pic/common.cpp
index bc434288e..e8923f5a1 100644
--- a/src/preproc/pic/common.cpp
+++ b/src/preproc/pic/common.cpp
@@ -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/preproc/pic/common.h b/src/preproc/pic/common.h
index 0ab0b2a34..b058d5c06 100644
--- a/src/preproc/pic/common.h
+++ b/src/preproc/pic/common.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1989-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 1989-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by James Clark ([email protected])
This file is part of groff.
diff --git a/src/preproc/pic/lex.cpp b/src/preproc/pic/lex.cpp
index 56e0a5376..5477e5447 100644
--- a/src/preproc/pic/lex.cpp
+++ b/src/preproc/pic/lex.cpp
@@ -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/preproc/pic/main.cpp b/src/preproc/pic/main.cpp
index 7ff1349fc..aabe2fd60 100644
--- a/src/preproc/pic/main.cpp
+++ b/src/preproc/pic/main.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/preproc/pic/object.cpp b/src/preproc/pic/object.cpp
index 35a22d3ca..036cbf4ac 100644
--- a/src/preproc/pic/object.cpp
+++ b/src/preproc/pic/object.cpp
@@ -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/preproc/pic/object.h b/src/preproc/pic/object.h
index ee99877e6..1d39daff1 100644
--- a/src/preproc/pic/object.h
+++ b/src/preproc/pic/object.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1989-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 1989-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by James Clark ([email protected])
This file is part of groff.
diff --git a/src/preproc/pic/output.h b/src/preproc/pic/output.h
index 84ebd4676..15ea6c1ed 100644
--- a/src/preproc/pic/output.h
+++ b/src/preproc/pic/output.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1989-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 1989-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by James Clark ([email protected])
This file is part of groff.
diff --git a/src/preproc/pic/pic.1.man b/src/preproc/pic/pic.1.man
index 7383f42bd..bcb04df87 100644
--- a/src/preproc/pic/pic.1.man
+++ b/src/preproc/pic/pic.1.man
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ or TeX
.\" Legal Terms
.\" ====================================================================
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 1989-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 1989-2025 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/preproc/pic/pic.am b/src/preproc/pic/pic.am
index 79682f2db..c9e3b7240 100644
--- a/src/preproc/pic/pic.am
+++ b/src/preproc/pic/pic.am
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2014-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2014-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This file is part of groff.
#
diff --git a/src/preproc/pic/pic.h b/src/preproc/pic/pic.h
index f7325ddb3..303ccb3c3 100644
--- a/src/preproc/pic/pic.h
+++ b/src/preproc/pic/pic.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/preproc/pic/pic.ypp b/src/preproc/pic/pic.ypp
index 588034035..45db1c037 100644
--- a/src/preproc/pic/pic.ypp
+++ b/src/preproc/pic/pic.ypp
@@ -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/preproc/pic/position.h b/src/preproc/pic/position.h
index 4aa79aa4b..1bb384953 100644
--- a/src/preproc/pic/position.h
+++ b/src/preproc/pic/position.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1989-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 1989-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by James Clark ([email protected])
This file is part of groff.
diff --git a/src/preproc/pic/tests/passes-through-input-with-eighth-bit-set.sh
b/src/preproc/pic/tests/passes-through-input-with-eighth-bit-set.sh
index e6c74c489..f22f5da0e 100755
--- a/src/preproc/pic/tests/passes-through-input-with-eighth-bit-set.sh
+++ b/src/preproc/pic/tests/passes-through-input-with-eighth-bit-set.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/bin/sh
#
-# Copyright (C) 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This file is part of groff.
#
diff --git a/src/preproc/pic/tests/polygon-command-works.sh
b/src/preproc/pic/tests/polygon-command-works.sh
index 440436baa..efe6ffa43 100755
--- a/src/preproc/pic/tests/polygon-command-works.sh
+++ b/src/preproc/pic/tests/polygon-command-works.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/bin/sh
#
-# Copyright (C) 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This file is part of groff.
#
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