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commit 7f27a9a34d541a741990b86e898c10ef64ba8525
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Dec 18 12:26:50 2025 -0600
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
---
contrib/mom/groff_mom.7.man | 2 +-
src/include/relocate.h | 2 +-
tmac/groff_www.7.man | 2 +-
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/mom/groff_mom.7.man b/contrib/mom/groff_mom.7.man
index 03a35948e..cd92148df 100644
--- a/contrib/mom/groff_mom.7.man
+++ b/contrib/mom/groff_mom.7.man
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ groff_mom \- modern macros for document composition with GNU
.\" Legal Terms
.\" ====================================================================
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 2002-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2002-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\"
.\" This file is part of mom, which is part of groff, the GNU roff
.\" typesetting system.
diff --git a/src/include/relocate.h b/src/include/relocate.h
index d6d1cec0c..47176c91f 100644
--- a/src/include/relocate.h
+++ b/src/include/relocate.h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
/* Provide relocation for macro and font files.
- Copyright (C) 2005-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright 2005-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
diff --git a/tmac/groff_www.7.man b/tmac/groff_www.7.man
index c0bd4b74c..a1283c9d0 100644
--- a/tmac/groff_www.7.man
+++ b/tmac/groff_www.7.man
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ macros for authoring web pages
.\" Legal Terms
.\" ====================================================================
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 2000-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2000-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\"
.\" This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
.\"
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