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commit 7851d1c82e45ec86c8b9fa2e31b456375efdefc8
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri Oct 9 00:05:00 2026 -0500
[soelim]: Cosmetically revise copyright notices.
* src/preproc/soelim/soelim.1.man:
* src/preproc/soelim/soelim.am:
* src/preproc/soelim/soelim.cpp:
* src/preproc/soelim/tests/space-in-argument-works.sh: 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/soelim/soelim.1.man | 2 +-
src/preproc/soelim/soelim.am | 2 +-
src/preproc/soelim/soelim.cpp | 2 +-
src/preproc/soelim/tests/space-in-argument-works.sh | 2 +-
4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/preproc/soelim/soelim.1.man b/src/preproc/soelim/soelim.1.man
index f357c17d7..1d896283e 100644
--- a/src/preproc/soelim/soelim.1.man
+++ b/src/preproc/soelim/soelim.1.man
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ or other text files
.\" 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/preproc/soelim/soelim.am b/src/preproc/soelim/soelim.am
index d41afbc82..eeb6bf22b 100644
--- a/src/preproc/soelim/soelim.am
+++ b/src/preproc/soelim/soelim.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.
#
diff --git a/src/preproc/soelim/soelim.cpp b/src/preproc/soelim/soelim.cpp
index 1064edaef..43bef9c57 100644
--- a/src/preproc/soelim/soelim.cpp
+++ b/src/preproc/soelim/soelim.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.
diff --git a/src/preproc/soelim/tests/space-in-argument-works.sh
b/src/preproc/soelim/tests/space-in-argument-works.sh
index 07213ece1..f607be021 100755
--- a/src/preproc/soelim/tests/space-in-argument-works.sh
+++ b/src/preproc/soelim/tests/space-in-argument-works.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/bin/sh
#
-# Copyright (C) 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
#
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