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commit 123d6c1248f14567252321107cc2068a59184061
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Nov 6 14:36:57 2025 -0600
man/*: 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
---
man/groff.7.man | 2 +-
man/groff_char.7.man | 2 +-
man/groff_diff.7.man | 2 +-
man/groff_font.5.man | 2 +-
man/groff_out.5.man | 2 +-
man/groff_tmac.5.man | 2 +-
man/man.am | 2 +-
7 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/groff.7.man b/man/groff.7.man
index 4b2ed4d1e..9c27f1857 100644
--- a/man/groff.7.man
+++ b/man/groff.7.man
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ language reference
.\" Legal Terms
.\" ====================================================================
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 2000-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2000-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\"
.\" This file is part of groff, the GNU roff type-setting system.
.\"
diff --git a/man/groff_char.7.man b/man/groff_char.7.man
index 837d4c92d..d51db9d20 100644
--- a/man/groff_char.7.man
+++ b/man/groff_char.7.man
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ special character and glyph repertoire
.\" Legal Terms
.\" ====================================================================
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 1989-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 1989-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\"
.\" This file is part of groff (GNU roff), which is a free software
.\" project.
diff --git a/man/groff_diff.7.man b/man/groff_diff.7.man
index 8953f22d3..4f2ed2144 100644
--- a/man/groff_diff.7.man
+++ b/man/groff_diff.7.man
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ and AT&T
.\" Legal Terms
.\" ====================================================================
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 1989-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 1989-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\"
.\" This file is part of groff, the GNU roff type-setting system.
.\"
diff --git a/man/groff_font.5.man b/man/groff_font.5.man
index fb203c3ef..a53f973c8 100644
--- a/man/groff_font.5.man
+++ b/man/groff_font.5.man
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ device and font description files
.\" Legal Terms
.\" ====================================================================
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 1989-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 1989-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\"
.\" This file is part of groff (GNU roff), which is a free software
.\" project.
diff --git a/man/groff_out.5.man b/man/groff_out.5.man
index 41c5db114..975760c9c 100644
--- a/man/groff_out.5.man
+++ b/man/groff_out.5.man
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ device-independent page description language
.\" Legal Terms
.\" ====================================================================
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 1989-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 1989-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\"
.\" This file is part of groff, the GNU roff type-setting system.
.\"
diff --git a/man/groff_tmac.5.man b/man/groff_tmac.5.man
index fbeb1f989..d96127572 100644
--- a/man/groff_tmac.5.man
+++ b/man/groff_tmac.5.man
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ typesetting system
.\" Legal Terms
.\" ====================================================================
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 2000-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2000-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\"
.\" This file is part of groff (GNU roff), which is a free software
.\" project.
diff --git a/man/man.am b/man/man.am
index f37e9064d..7cb560947 100644
--- a/man/man.am
+++ b/man/man.am
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2014-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2014-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This file is part of 'groff'.
#
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