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commit 00f0f733dc09c312871f36fa8a02ed50d0bfb53b
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri Dec 12 14:40:22 2025 -0600
man/roff.7.man: 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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man/roff.7.man | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/man/roff.7.man b/man/roff.7.man
index 8d01e63c9..f215998b3 100644
--- a/man/roff.7.man
+++ b/man/roff.7.man
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ typesetting
.\" Legal Terms
.\" ====================================================================
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 2000-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2000-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\"
.\" This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
.\"
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