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commit f4b7bc9780b6213300c36d329b466269ffd51b45
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon May 25 15:09:15 2026 -0500
[libbib]: Cosmetically revise copyright notices.
* src/libs/libbib/common.cpp:
* src/libs/libbib/index.cpp:
* src/libs/libbib/linear.cpp:
* src/libs/libbib/map.c:
* src/libs/libbib/search.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/libs/libbib/common.cpp | 2 +-
src/libs/libbib/index.cpp | 2 +-
src/libs/libbib/linear.cpp | 2 +-
src/libs/libbib/map.c | 2 +-
src/libs/libbib/search.cpp | 2 +-
5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/libs/libbib/common.cpp b/src/libs/libbib/common.cpp
index 9c978254c..4b6dbc7c5 100644
--- a/src/libs/libbib/common.cpp
+++ b/src/libs/libbib/common.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1989-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 1989-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by James Clark ([email protected])
This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
diff --git a/src/libs/libbib/index.cpp b/src/libs/libbib/index.cpp
index 0ccf0b866..b907a8759 100644
--- a/src/libs/libbib/index.cpp
+++ b/src/libs/libbib/index.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1989-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 1989-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by James Clark ([email protected])
This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
diff --git a/src/libs/libbib/linear.cpp b/src/libs/libbib/linear.cpp
index a44d9dd2c..5de654536 100644
--- a/src/libs/libbib/linear.cpp
+++ b/src/libs/libbib/linear.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1989-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 1989-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by James Clark ([email protected])
This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
diff --git a/src/libs/libbib/map.c b/src/libs/libbib/map.c
index 8fcfe0412..cf1bd53c3 100644
--- a/src/libs/libbib/map.c
+++ b/src/libs/libbib/map.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1989-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 1989-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by James Clark ([email protected])
This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
diff --git a/src/libs/libbib/search.cpp b/src/libs/libbib/search.cpp
index a8e5f0b1c..a3991f906 100644
--- a/src/libs/libbib/search.cpp
+++ b/src/libs/libbib/search.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1989-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 1989-2020 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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