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commit 2e33b7d40c58cceae0be9e8bbfd6f4312b0ba02f
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed Jan 21 01:13:53 2026 -0600
[devpdf]: 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
---
font/devpdf/Foundry.in | 2 +-
font/devpdf/devpdf.am | 2 +-
font/devpdf/generate/Makefile | 2 +-
font/devpdf/tests/check-default-foundry.sh.in | 2 +-
font/devpdf/tests/check-urw-foundry.sh.in | 2 +-
font/devpdf/util/BuildFoundries.pl | 2 +-
6 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/font/devpdf/Foundry.in b/font/devpdf/Foundry.in
index 0570be8f2..9f94b0e01 100644
--- a/font/devpdf/Foundry.in
+++ b/font/devpdf/Foundry.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
# Foundry file
-# Copyright (C) 2011-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2011-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# Written by Deri James <[email protected]>
#
# This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
diff --git a/font/devpdf/devpdf.am b/font/devpdf/devpdf.am
index 7f264b59c..c68875340 100644
--- a/font/devpdf/devpdf.am
+++ b/font/devpdf/devpdf.am
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2011-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2011-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# Written by Deri James <[email protected]>
# Automake migration by Bertrand Garrigues
# <[email protected]>
diff --git a/font/devpdf/generate/Makefile b/font/devpdf/generate/Makefile
index 122081837..755a34efc 100644
--- a/font/devpdf/generate/Makefile
+++ b/font/devpdf/generate/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2025 G. Branden Robinson
+# Copyright 2025 G. Branden Robinson
#
# This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
#
diff --git a/font/devpdf/tests/check-default-foundry.sh.in
b/font/devpdf/tests/check-default-foundry.sh.in
index 38f8e2ec7..239111620 100755
--- a/font/devpdf/tests/check-default-foundry.sh.in
+++ b/font/devpdf/tests/check-default-foundry.sh.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/bin/sh
#
-# Copyright (C) 2022-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2022-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
#
diff --git a/font/devpdf/tests/check-urw-foundry.sh.in
b/font/devpdf/tests/check-urw-foundry.sh.in
index dbe31cc2b..d6f4e59e0 100755
--- a/font/devpdf/tests/check-urw-foundry.sh.in
+++ b/font/devpdf/tests/check-urw-foundry.sh.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/bin/sh
#
-# Copyright (C) 2022-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2022-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
#
diff --git a/font/devpdf/util/BuildFoundries.pl
b/font/devpdf/util/BuildFoundries.pl
index 8d40a9ccc..dc96a8af2 100644
--- a/font/devpdf/util/BuildFoundries.pl
+++ b/font/devpdf/util/BuildFoundries.pl
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
# BuildFoundries: Given a Foundry file, generate groff font description
# files and a "download" file so gropdf can embed fonts in PDF output.
#
-# Copyright (C) 2011-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2011-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# Written by Deri James <[email protected]>
#
# This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
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