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commit 44760a2506a3c28febfae4c1dc1433562e6b8913
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sun Jun 14 06:23:41 2026 -0500
[pic]: Cosmetically revise copyright notices.
* src/preproc/pic/tex.cpp:
* src/preproc/pic/text.h:
* src/preproc/pic/troff.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/preproc/pic/tex.cpp | 2 +-
src/preproc/pic/text.h | 2 +-
src/preproc/pic/troff.cpp | 2 +-
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/preproc/pic/tex.cpp b/src/preproc/pic/tex.cpp
index 45f1ef57f..2c03bcb7f 100644
--- a/src/preproc/pic/tex.cpp
+++ b/src/preproc/pic/tex.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1989-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 1989-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by James Clark ([email protected])
diff --git a/src/preproc/pic/text.h b/src/preproc/pic/text.h
index 2056c894c..85bac47ac 100644
--- a/src/preproc/pic/text.h
+++ b/src/preproc/pic/text.h
@@ -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])
diff --git a/src/preproc/pic/troff.cpp b/src/preproc/pic/troff.cpp
index 75a75b0dc..11adc4708 100644
--- a/src/preproc/pic/troff.cpp
+++ b/src/preproc/pic/troff.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])
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