gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
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commit 1ca03091944559b0c2309a615c1b07ddaf69d2d6
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sat Dec 20 20:38:04 2025 -0600
[sboxes]: 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/sboxes/sboxes.am | 2 +-
contrib/sboxes/sboxes.tmac | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/sboxes/sboxes.am b/contrib/sboxes/sboxes.am
index dce30f0ba..13a10c98c 100644
--- a/contrib/sboxes/sboxes.am
+++ b/contrib/sboxes/sboxes.am
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# Written by Bertrand Garrigues <[email protected]>
#
# This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
diff --git a/contrib/sboxes/sboxes.tmac b/contrib/sboxes/sboxes.tmac
index a9f217db2..a7b8e030e 100644
--- a/contrib/sboxes/sboxes.tmac
+++ b/contrib/sboxes/sboxes.tmac
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
sboxes.tmac
-Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by Deri James ([email protected])
This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
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