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commit 66b06fa992bb9184041fda2ce24648f112e1dcd4
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed Dec 31 20:24:14 2025 -0600
tmac/s.tmac: 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
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tmac/s.tmac | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tmac/s.tmac b/tmac/s.tmac
index f6c088473..cd94e5b66 100644
--- a/tmac/s.tmac
+++ b/tmac/s.tmac
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
s.tmac
-Copyright (C) 1989-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- 2022-2023 G. Branden Robinson
+Copyright 1989-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ 2022-2023 G. Branden Robinson
Written by James Clark ([email protected])
Enhanced by: Werner Lemberg <[email protected]>
Keith Marshall <[email protected]>
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