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commit 397c5d6d0f358873e84a99cb02a2a1e9626f95c5
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Mar 26 13:33:25 2026 -0500
[grolbp]: Cosmetically revise copyright notices.
* src/devices/grolbp/charset.h:
* src/devices/grolbp/grolbp.1.man:
* src/devices/grolbp/grolbp.am:
* src/devices/grolbp/lbp.cpp:
* src/devices/grolbp/lbp.h: 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/grolbp/charset.h | 2 +-
src/devices/grolbp/grolbp.1.man | 2 +-
src/devices/grolbp/grolbp.am | 2 +-
src/devices/grolbp/lbp.cpp | 2 +-
src/devices/grolbp/lbp.h | 2 +-
5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/devices/grolbp/charset.h b/src/devices/grolbp/charset.h
index b9030f434..0005a1a4f 100644
--- a/src/devices/grolbp/charset.h
+++ b/src/devices/grolbp/charset.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
// -*- C++ -*-
-/* Copyright (C) 2000-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 2000-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by Francisco Andr�s Verd� <[email protected]> with many ideas
taken from the other groff drivers.
diff --git a/src/devices/grolbp/grolbp.1.man b/src/devices/grolbp/grolbp.1.man
index 7f585abe6..c12ee0fdd 100644
--- a/src/devices/grolbp/grolbp.1.man
+++ b/src/devices/grolbp/grolbp.1.man
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ output driver for Canon CaPSL printers
.\" Legal Terms
.\" ====================================================================
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 1994-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 1994-2024 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/devices/grolbp/grolbp.am b/src/devices/grolbp/grolbp.am
index b363e4f27..872d76ebb 100644
--- a/src/devices/grolbp/grolbp.am
+++ b/src/devices/grolbp/grolbp.am
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2014-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2014-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
#
diff --git a/src/devices/grolbp/lbp.cpp b/src/devices/grolbp/lbp.cpp
index c35ca1563..6020a747e 100644
--- a/src/devices/grolbp/lbp.cpp
+++ b/src/devices/grolbp/lbp.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1994-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 1994-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by Francisco Andr�s Verd� <[email protected]> with many ideas
taken from the other groff drivers.
diff --git a/src/devices/grolbp/lbp.h b/src/devices/grolbp/lbp.h
index bcab59865..1c250962a 100644
--- a/src/devices/grolbp/lbp.h
+++ b/src/devices/grolbp/lbp.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
// -*- C -*-
-/* Copyright (C) 1994-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 1994-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by Francisco Andr�s Verd� <[email protected]>
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