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commit 560885484123c4e4cceeca8feb5f02bf08dab61e
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri Apr 24 12:17:09 2026 -0500
[grn]: Cosmetically revise copyright notices.
* src/preproc/grn/grn.1.man:
* src/preproc/grn/grn.am: 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
these notices.
[1] https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf
---
src/preproc/grn/grn.1.man | 2 +-
src/preproc/grn/grn.am | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/preproc/grn/grn.1.man b/src/preproc/grn/grn.1.man
index 22ea6cbe7..48f3c996d 100644
--- a/src/preproc/grn/grn.1.man
+++ b/src/preproc/grn/grn.1.man
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ documents
.\" Legal Terms
.\" ====================================================================
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 2000-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2000-2024 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/preproc/grn/grn.am b/src/preproc/grn/grn.am
index d283ac051..6b6dce65f 100644
--- a/src/preproc/grn/grn.am
+++ b/src/preproc/grn/grn.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.
#
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