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commit d1eb57a8093f14d8bc469226814f4f258b2636f4
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sat Jan 24 12:43:46 2026 -0600
[afmtodit]: 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
---
src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.1.man | 2 +-
src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.am | 2 +-
src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.pl | 2 +-
src/utils/afmtodit/make-afmtodit-tables | 2 +-
4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.1.man
b/src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.1.man
index d3ab66a83..feccef64f 100644
--- a/src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.1.man
+++ b/src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.1.man
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ PostScript and PDF output
.\" Legal Terms
.\" ====================================================================
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 1989-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 1989-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\"
.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
diff --git a/src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.am b/src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.am
index 679e891b9..e9ebd2766 100644
--- a/src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.am
+++ b/src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.am
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
# Automake rules for 'src utils afmtodit'
#
-# Copyright (C) 2013-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2013-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
#
diff --git a/src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.pl b/src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.pl
index 5b34ad162..8176658bc 100644
--- a/src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.pl
+++ b/src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.pl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
#!@PERL@
-# Copyright (C) 1989-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 1989-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# 2022-2024 G. Branden Robinson
# Written by James Clark ([email protected])
# Enhanced by: Werner Lemberg <[email protected]>
diff --git a/src/utils/afmtodit/make-afmtodit-tables
b/src/utils/afmtodit/make-afmtodit-tables
index 6981456e1..85a318f12 100755
--- a/src/utils/afmtodit/make-afmtodit-tables
+++ b/src/utils/afmtodit/make-afmtodit-tables
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
#
# Create afmtodit(1)'s 'unicode_decomposed' and 'AGL_to_unicode' tables.
#
-# Copyright (C) 2005-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2005-2024 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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