On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 09:40:13PM +0200, markus schnalke wrote: > Dwm, surf, and probably more suckless projects contain the copyright > symbol as UTF-8 character. In most cases, if not always, it is the only > non-ASCII character in those files. > > I suggest to replace it with ``Copyright'' or ``Copyright (c)''. > (``(c)'' alone is not enough from the lawyer POV, AFAIK.) > > Although most modern software can deal with UTF-8 chars, why use them > when not necessary? In this case, we'll not lose anything but may avoid > problems. What 'problems'? I think that the © is necessary, as it shows the copyright notice, and it's a lot shorter than writing our 'copyright (c) blah'.
> What speaks against? > > > meillo > -- Jake Todd // If it isn't broke, tweak it!
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