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commit edb8f72a359aaa382aea7ecf74849433850204c5
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Nov 6 14:38:33 2025 -0600
[grotty]: 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
---
src/devices/grotty/grotty.1.man | 2 +-
src/devices/grotty/tty.cpp | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/devices/grotty/grotty.1.man b/src/devices/grotty/grotty.1.man
index 9810b1ecb..60505a0b1 100644
--- a/src/devices/grotty/grotty.1.man
+++ b/src/devices/grotty/grotty.1.man
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ output driver for typewriter-like (terminal) devices
.\" Legal Terms
.\" ====================================================================
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 1989-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 1989-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\"
.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
diff --git a/src/devices/grotty/tty.cpp b/src/devices/grotty/tty.cpp
index 987f9fb70..472da6d06 100644
--- a/src/devices/grotty/tty.cpp
+++ b/src/devices/grotty/tty.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1989-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 1989-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by James Clark ([email protected])
OSC 8 support by G. Branden Robinson
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