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commit 6d22b476d381437fcae5ff6696a1719952a64a6a
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri Sep 19 20:08:14 2025 -0500
.../html-device-smoke-test.sh: Revise copyright.
Add a copyright notice for myself, replacing the FSF's notice. I've
never executed copyright assignment paperwork with the FSF, so my
origination of this file in 2020 and "legally significant"[1] changes to
date can't be under the FSF's copyright.
Drop ersatz '(C)' copyright symbol. 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.[2] 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.[2] 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] "A change of just a few lines (less than 15 or so) is not legally
significant for copyright." Conversely, >= 15 lines would be.
https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Legally-Significant.html
[2] https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf
---
src/roff/groff/tests/html-device-smoke-test.sh | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/roff/groff/tests/html-device-smoke-test.sh
b/src/roff/groff/tests/html-device-smoke-test.sh
index 110cf518e..f74cff5cd 100755
--- a/src/roff/groff/tests/html-device-smoke-test.sh
+++ b/src/roff/groff/tests/html-device-smoke-test.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/bin/sh
#
-# Copyright (C) 2020-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2020-2025 G. Branden Robinson
#
# This file is part of groff.
#
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