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commit 18ebe9e0b0189b9047b3625a3bba5f01159bc471
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue Feb 3 08:27:26 2026 -0600
tmac: Drop ersatz copyright symbol '(C)'.
...from localization macro files.
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
---
tmac/cs.tmac | 2 +-
tmac/de.tmac | 2 +-
tmac/en.tmac | 2 +-
tmac/es.tmac | 2 +-
tmac/fr.tmac | 2 +-
tmac/it.tmac | 2 +-
tmac/ja.tmac | 2 +-
tmac/pl.tmac | 2 +-
tmac/ru.tmac | 2 +-
tmac/sv.tmac | 2 +-
tmac/zh.tmac | 2 +-
11 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tmac/cs.tmac b/tmac/cs.tmac
index ae213e343..39e9bf51d 100644
--- a/tmac/cs.tmac
+++ b/tmac/cs.tmac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.\" Czech localization for groff
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 2007-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2007-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\" Written by Marcela Ma�l��ov� ([email protected])
.\"
.\" This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
diff --git a/tmac/de.tmac b/tmac/de.tmac
index 90b47b3a6..2dde7cd0c 100644
--- a/tmac/de.tmac
+++ b/tmac/de.tmac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.\" German localization for groff
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 2006-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2006-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\" Written by Werner Lemberg ([email protected])
.\"
.\" This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
diff --git a/tmac/en.tmac b/tmac/en.tmac
index 770773550..9fcbc5064 100644
--- a/tmac/en.tmac
+++ b/tmac/en.tmac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.\" English localization for groff
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 2021-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2021-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\" Written by G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
.\"
.\" This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
diff --git a/tmac/es.tmac b/tmac/es.tmac
index 19e6f298e..42f877ace 100644
--- a/tmac/es.tmac
+++ b/tmac/es.tmac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.\" Spanish localization for groff
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\" Written by Eloi Monta��s ([email protected])
.\"
.\" This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
diff --git a/tmac/fr.tmac b/tmac/fr.tmac
index 18bc352d8..46978d70b 100644
--- a/tmac/fr.tmac
+++ b/tmac/fr.tmac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.\" French localization for groff
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 2006-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2006-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\" Written by Fabrice M�nard ([email protected])
.\"
.\" This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
diff --git a/tmac/it.tmac b/tmac/it.tmac
index 870e55cff..d7b08bdee 100644
--- a/tmac/it.tmac
+++ b/tmac/it.tmac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.\" Italian localization for groff
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 2021-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2021-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\" Written by Edmond Orignac ([email protected])
.\"
.\" This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
diff --git a/tmac/ja.tmac b/tmac/ja.tmac
index 877dd6935..c863d912d 100644
--- a/tmac/ja.tmac
+++ b/tmac/ja.tmac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.\" Japanese localization for groff
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 2009-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2009-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\" Written by Fumitoshi UKAI <[email protected]> and
.\" Colin Watson <[email protected]>
.\"
diff --git a/tmac/pl.tmac b/tmac/pl.tmac
index ed9b23cbd..14a9cbf38 100644
--- a/tmac/pl.tmac
+++ b/tmac/pl.tmac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.\" Polish localization for groff
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\" Written by Dariusz Chilimoniuk <[email protected]>
.\"
.\" This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
diff --git a/tmac/ru.tmac b/tmac/ru.tmac
index 60b3eb55b..1e6a447b7 100644
--- a/tmac/ru.tmac
+++ b/tmac/ru.tmac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.\" Russian localization for groff
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\" Written by Nikita Ivanov ([email protected])
.\"
.\" This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
diff --git a/tmac/sv.tmac b/tmac/sv.tmac
index ee020730d..271fd8f70 100644
--- a/tmac/sv.tmac
+++ b/tmac/sv.tmac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.\" Swedish localization for groff
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 2006-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2006-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\" Written by Werner Lemberg ([email protected])
.\"
.\" This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
diff --git a/tmac/zh.tmac b/tmac/zh.tmac
index 5c4a55615..a3006ef0d 100644
--- a/tmac/zh.tmac
+++ b/tmac/zh.tmac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.\" Chinese localization for groff
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2015-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\" Written by Darcy SHEN <[email protected]>
.\" using 'ja.tmac' as a template
.\"
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