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commit 9af53d87c8a549f2601911c734a93387673ca3af
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon Jan 26 01:10:46 2026 -0600
src/preproc: 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/preproc/grn/tests/passes-through-input-with-eighth-bit-set.sh | 2 +-
src/preproc/soelim/tests/passes-through-input-with-eighth-bit-set.sh | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/preproc/grn/tests/passes-through-input-with-eighth-bit-set.sh
b/src/preproc/grn/tests/passes-through-input-with-eighth-bit-set.sh
index 263d2a986..859e736ff 100755
--- a/src/preproc/grn/tests/passes-through-input-with-eighth-bit-set.sh
+++ b/src/preproc/grn/tests/passes-through-input-with-eighth-bit-set.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/bin/sh
#
-# Copyright (C) 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
#
diff --git
a/src/preproc/soelim/tests/passes-through-input-with-eighth-bit-set.sh
b/src/preproc/soelim/tests/passes-through-input-with-eighth-bit-set.sh
index 7f215b8b3..9c5b542ac 100755
--- a/src/preproc/soelim/tests/passes-through-input-with-eighth-bit-set.sh
+++ b/src/preproc/soelim/tests/passes-through-input-with-eighth-bit-set.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/bin/sh
#
-# Copyright (C) 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
#
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