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commit a353daf21ea900eef84db7d9fdae58efee78bf07
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Mar 26 16:35:39 2026 -0500
[grolj4]: Cosmetically revise copyright notices.
* src/devices/grolj4/grolj4.1.man:
* src/devices/grolj4/grolj4.am:
* src/devices/grolj4/lj4.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 this notice.
[1] https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf
---
src/devices/grolj4/grolj4.1.man | 2 +-
src/devices/grolj4/grolj4.am | 2 +-
src/devices/grolj4/lj4.cpp | 2 +-
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/devices/grolj4/grolj4.1.man b/src/devices/grolj4/grolj4.1.man
index 9aec92169..7ed27a533 100644
--- a/src/devices/grolj4/grolj4.1.man
+++ b/src/devices/grolj4/grolj4.1.man
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ output driver for HP LaserJet 4 and compatible printers
.\" Legal Terms
.\" ====================================================================
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 1994-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 1994-2024 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/devices/grolj4/grolj4.am b/src/devices/grolj4/grolj4.am
index 9cf75eb1a..79f834a25 100644
--- a/src/devices/grolj4/grolj4.am
+++ b/src/devices/grolj4/grolj4.am
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2014-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2014-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
#
diff --git a/src/devices/grolj4/lj4.cpp b/src/devices/grolj4/lj4.cpp
index ae9d4b179..eae9b48e0 100644
--- a/src/devices/grolj4/lj4.cpp
+++ b/src/devices/grolj4/lj4.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1994-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 1994-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by James Clark ([email protected])
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