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commit 283f2ea80606924f9ac5ab23d4e4c22f5bf825bb
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri Dec 12 15:35:18 2025 -0600
doc/meref.me.in: Drop ersatz copyright symbol.
...namely, '(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/meref.me.in | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/meref.me.in b/doc/meref.me.in
index 980f810b9..a1784cbe1 100644
--- a/doc/meref.me.in
+++ b/doc/meref.me.in
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
.\" Copyright (c) 1986, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 1989-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 1989-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\"
.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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