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commit 877718f9ad591f09baa1fb08a9b767e7baa3db8e
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sat Dec 20 21:10:17 2025 -0600
[rfc1345]: 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/rfc1345/COPYRIGHT | 2 +-
contrib/rfc1345/groff_rfc1345.7.man | 2 +-
contrib/rfc1345/tests/rfc1345-smoke-test.sh | 2 +-
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/rfc1345/COPYRIGHT b/contrib/rfc1345/COPYRIGHT
index 9f3b85965..0d0dc9b43 100644
--- a/contrib/rfc1345/COPYRIGHT
+++ b/contrib/rfc1345/COPYRIGHT
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (c) 2021 Dorai Sitaram
+Copyright 2021 Dorai Sitaram
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
diff --git a/contrib/rfc1345/groff_rfc1345.7.man
b/contrib/rfc1345/groff_rfc1345.7.man
index acb91f691..2c631e98e 100644
--- a/contrib/rfc1345/groff_rfc1345.7.man
+++ b/contrib/rfc1345/groff_rfc1345.7.man
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ groff_rfc1345 \- special character names from RFC 1345 and Vim
digraphs
.\" Legal Terms
.\" ====================================================================
.\"
-.\" Copyright (c) 2021-2024 Dorai Sitaram
+.\" Copyright 2021-2024 Dorai Sitaram
.\"
.\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
.\" obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files
diff --git a/contrib/rfc1345/tests/rfc1345-smoke-test.sh
b/contrib/rfc1345/tests/rfc1345-smoke-test.sh
index e058f4d49..8ab95b16a 100755
--- a/contrib/rfc1345/tests/rfc1345-smoke-test.sh
+++ b/contrib/rfc1345/tests/rfc1345-smoke-test.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/bin/sh
#
-# Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2021 G. Branden Robinson
#
# This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
#
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