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commit f95c90834814aea0761d33fc6256f49e8e9f0c66
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri Nov 14 08:00:07 2025 -0600
Makefile.am,configure.ac: Tweak copyright notice.
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
---
Makefile.am | 2 +-
configure.ac | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 615623632..184fc1c72 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 1989-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 1989-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# Original Makefile.in written by James Clark ([email protected])
# Migrated to Automake by Bertrand Garrigues
#
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 279605642..f8abfd8a7 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
# Autoconf configuration file for groff.
-# Copyright (C) 1989-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 1989-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This file is part of groff.
#
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