On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:40 PM, markus schnalke <[email protected]> wrote: > Dwm, surf, and probably more suckless projects contain the copyright > symbol as UTF-8 character. In most cases, if not always, it is the only > non-ASCII character in those files. > > I suggest to replace it with ``Copyright'' or ``Copyright (c)''. > (``(c)'' alone is not enough from the lawyer POV, AFAIK.) > > Although most modern software can deal with UTF-8 chars, why use them > when not necessary? In this case, we'll not lose anything but may avoid > problems. > > What speaks against? > > > meillo > >
Then again, why bother appealing to copy "rights" and similar hooey in the first place? I always consider it to be enough simply to appeal to good sense, good manners, and social pressure to ensure credit is given where credit is due. Something like "Notice: So-and-so created this work. Do what you like with it, but don't claim you came up with it 'cause that's lying. And nobody likes a liar. Thanks." Different strokes for different folks, I guess. A.J.
