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commit 7725e103e505f4ea0dd2652b5191f49e0cbe42a6
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed Jan 21 01:34:48 2026 -0600
[devps]: 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/devps/devps.am | 2 +-
font/devps/generate/Makefile | 2 +-
font/devps/generate/make-zapfdr | 2 +-
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/font/devps/devps.am b/font/devps/devps.am
index a92f59f70..a95e58e09 100644
--- a/font/devps/devps.am
+++ b/font/devps/devps.am
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2014-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2014-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
#
diff --git a/font/devps/generate/Makefile b/font/devps/generate/Makefile
index 54af4687e..39ab78fb1 100644
--- a/font/devps/generate/Makefile
+++ b/font/devps/generate/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 1989-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 1989-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# Written by James Clark ([email protected])
#
# This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
diff --git a/font/devps/generate/make-zapfdr b/font/devps/generate/make-zapfdr
index 2464de8c9..73242c52b 100755
--- a/font/devps/generate/make-zapfdr
+++ b/font/devps/generate/make-zapfdr
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
#
# make-zapfdr -- script for creating the file zapfdr.ps
#
-# Copyright (C) 2006-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2006-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# Written by Werner Lemberg <[email protected]>
#
# This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
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