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commit cbb5fff5f678935e4e5b3f601bf8dac11af6a17d
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon May 25 01:19:43 2026 -0500
[tfmtodit]: Cosmetically revise copyright notices.
* src/utils/hpftodit/tfmtodit.1.man:
* src/utils/hpftodit/tfmtodit.cpp: 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/utils/tfmtodit/tfmtodit.1.man | 2 +-
src/utils/tfmtodit/tfmtodit.cpp | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/utils/tfmtodit/tfmtodit.1.man
b/src/utils/tfmtodit/tfmtodit.1.man
index ed3ccc3ab..ecabef23a 100644
--- a/src/utils/tfmtodit/tfmtodit.1.man
+++ b/src/utils/tfmtodit/tfmtodit.1.man
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ and
.\" Legal Terms
.\" ====================================================================
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 1989-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 1989-2024 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/utils/tfmtodit/tfmtodit.cpp b/src/utils/tfmtodit/tfmtodit.cpp
index 25aa5d3e6..445a149d7 100644
--- a/src/utils/tfmtodit/tfmtodit.cpp
+++ b/src/utils/tfmtodit/tfmtodit.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1989-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 1989-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by James Clark ([email protected])
This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
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