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commit 826369c366a2396cc3dec3a85e810f7a55bf523d
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Dec 18 21:12:41 2025 -0600
[glilypond]: 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/glilypond/README.txt | 2 +-
contrib/glilypond/examples/example.groff | 2 +-
contrib/glilypond/glilypond.1.man | 2 +-
contrib/glilypond/glilypond.am | 2 +-
contrib/glilypond/glilypond.pl | 2 +-
5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/glilypond/README.txt b/contrib/glilypond/README.txt
index 77b01542d..664c796b6 100644
--- a/contrib/glilypond/README.txt
+++ b/contrib/glilypond/README.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
- Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright 2013-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by Bernd Warken <[email protected]>
diff --git a/contrib/glilypond/examples/example.groff
b/contrib/glilypond/examples/example.groff
index f274c2787..9ada928b4 100644
--- a/contrib/glilypond/examples/example.groff
+++ b/contrib/glilypond/examples/example.groff
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ glilypond - integrate lilypond parts into groff files
This file was written by Bernd Warken <groff\-bernd.warken\[email protected]>.
-Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright 2013-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of glilypond.
diff --git a/contrib/glilypond/glilypond.1.man
b/contrib/glilypond/glilypond.1.man
index ebb675025..350f2bbd7 100644
--- a/contrib/glilypond/glilypond.1.man
+++ b/contrib/glilypond/glilypond.1.man
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ documents
.\" Legal Terms
.\" ====================================================================
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2013-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\"
.\" This file is part of glilypond.
.\"
diff --git a/contrib/glilypond/glilypond.am b/contrib/glilypond/glilypond.am
index c10864380..dd5b29b1c 100644
--- a/contrib/glilypond/glilypond.am
+++ b/contrib/glilypond/glilypond.am
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
# Automake rules for 'glilypond'
#
-# Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2013-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# Written by Werner Lemberg <[email protected]> and
# Bernd Warken <[email protected]>.
# Automake migration by Bertrand Garrigues
diff --git a/contrib/glilypond/glilypond.pl b/contrib/glilypond/glilypond.pl
index 7a2c9790f..70be073cf 100755
--- a/contrib/glilypond/glilypond.pl
+++ b/contrib/glilypond/glilypond.pl
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ our $Legalese;
use constant LICENSE => q*
glilypond - integrate 'lilypond' into 'groff' files
-Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright 2013-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by Bernd Warken <[email protected]>
This file is part of glilypond.
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