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commit b4bb55fb4a9854ac6451e5130abe666ff97a4801
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sun Mar 15 13:15:30 2026 -0500
[xditview]: Cosmetically revise copyright notice.
Drop ersatz '(C)' copyright symbol. 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/devices/xditview/xditview.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/devices/xditview/xditview.c b/src/devices/xditview/xditview.c
index f39eedc09..bc6cddc0b 100644
--- a/src/devices/xditview/xditview.c
+++ b/src/devices/xditview/xditview.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
/*
* Copyright 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- * Copyright (C) 1990-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ * Copyright 1990-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
*
* Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
* documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
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