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commit 6dbdd5621826781422c4559380122a645417302f
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Feb 26 22:55:26 2026 -0600
[preconv]: Revise copyright notice in test script.
* Identify myself as the copyright holder. I've never executed
copyright assignment paperwork with the FSF, so my "legally
significant"[1] origination of this file in 2020 (and subsequent
changes to it) can't be under the FSF's copyright.
* Drop ersatz copyright symbol '(C)'.
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.[2] 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 this notice.
* Ratchet back ending year of copyright notice to 2024, reflecting the
date of the last "legally significant"[1] contribution to this file,
which was commit d5d437dcff, 2024-07-13, by me.
* Drop stump comment after license notice.
[1] See groff's "HACKING" file, section "Updating Copyright Notices".
[2] https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf
---
src/preproc/preconv/tests/smoke-test.sh | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/preproc/preconv/tests/smoke-test.sh
b/src/preproc/preconv/tests/smoke-test.sh
index 8cc39e552..281b51f82 100755
--- a/src/preproc/preconv/tests/smoke-test.sh
+++ b/src/preproc/preconv/tests/smoke-test.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/bin/sh
#
-# Copyright (C) 2020-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2020-2024 G. Branden Robinson
#
# This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
#
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-#
preconv="${abs_top_builddir:-.}/preconv"
@@ -79,6 +78,7 @@ fi
# cleaning them up even if we're interrupted, which in turn means
# setting up signal handlers, we use files in the build tree.
+# TODO: groff_mmse(7) is no longer UTF-8-encoded; find another.
#doc=contrib/mm/groff_mmse.7
#echo "testing uchardet detection on UTF-8 document $doc" >&2
#"$preconv" -d -D us-ascii 2>&1 >/dev/null $doc \
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