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commit a0b8762ad251bd188d900a72733d254847448ca9
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Mar 26 00:12:14 2026 -0500
[grohtml]: Cosmetically revise copyright notices.
* src/devices/grohtml/grohtml.1.man:
* src/devices/grohtml/grohtml.am:
* src/devices/grohtml/html-table.cpp:
* src/devices/grohtml/html-table.h:
* src/devices/grohtml/html-text.cpp:
* src/devices/grohtml/html-text.h:
* src/devices/grohtml/html.h:
* src/devices/grohtml/output.cpp:
* src/devices/grohtml/post-html.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/grohtml/grohtml.1.man | 2 +-
src/devices/grohtml/grohtml.am | 2 +-
src/devices/grohtml/html-table.cpp | 2 +-
src/devices/grohtml/html-table.h | 2 +-
src/devices/grohtml/html-text.cpp | 2 +-
src/devices/grohtml/html-text.h | 2 +-
src/devices/grohtml/html.h | 3 +--
src/devices/grohtml/output.cpp | 2 +-
src/devices/grohtml/post-html.cpp | 2 +-
9 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/devices/grohtml/grohtml.1.man
b/src/devices/grohtml/grohtml.1.man
index f266933c3..ed48b0147 100644
--- a/src/devices/grohtml/grohtml.1.man
+++ b/src/devices/grohtml/grohtml.1.man
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ output driver for HTML
.\" Legal Terms
.\" ====================================================================
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 1999-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 1999-2024 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/grohtml/grohtml.am b/src/devices/grohtml/grohtml.am
index 4aeabf99d..89d3bec0c 100644
--- a/src/devices/grohtml/grohtml.am
+++ b/src/devices/grohtml/grohtml.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/grohtml/html-table.cpp
b/src/devices/grohtml/html-table.cpp
index 835aa4500..2e79d57f6 100644
--- a/src/devices/grohtml/html-table.cpp
+++ b/src/devices/grohtml/html-table.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 2002-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 2002-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
*
* Gaius Mulley ([email protected]) wrote html-table.cpp
*
diff --git a/src/devices/grohtml/html-table.h b/src/devices/grohtml/html-table.h
index 4f4cf6ba8..64e4fb344 100644
--- a/src/devices/grohtml/html-table.h
+++ b/src/devices/grohtml/html-table.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
// -*- C++ -*-
-/* Copyright (C) 2002-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 2002-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
*
* Gaius Mulley ([email protected]) wrote html-table.h
*
diff --git a/src/devices/grohtml/html-text.cpp
b/src/devices/grohtml/html-text.cpp
index 7283ed25e..352eb5548 100644
--- a/src/devices/grohtml/html-text.cpp
+++ b/src/devices/grohtml/html-text.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 2000-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 2000-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
*
* Gaius Mulley ([email protected]) wrote html-text.cpp
*
diff --git a/src/devices/grohtml/html-text.h b/src/devices/grohtml/html-text.h
index 0dfa7a515..df4e70c57 100644
--- a/src/devices/grohtml/html-text.h
+++ b/src/devices/grohtml/html-text.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
// -*- C++ -*-
-/* Copyright (C) 2000-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 2000-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
*
* Gaius Mulley ([email protected]) wrote html-text.h
*
diff --git a/src/devices/grohtml/html.h b/src/devices/grohtml/html.h
index a4b73793f..a86a12813 100644
--- a/src/devices/grohtml/html.h
+++ b/src/devices/grohtml/html.h
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-// -*- C++ -*-
-/* Copyright (C) 2000-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 2000-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by James Clark ([email protected])
diff --git a/src/devices/grohtml/output.cpp b/src/devices/grohtml/output.cpp
index 7470660e6..8a683101b 100644
--- a/src/devices/grohtml/output.cpp
+++ b/src/devices/grohtml/output.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 2000-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 2000-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
*
* Gaius Mulley ([email protected]) wrote output.cpp
* but it owes a huge amount of ideas and raw code from
diff --git a/src/devices/grohtml/post-html.cpp
b/src/devices/grohtml/post-html.cpp
index 3d567d1b4..43a716d98 100644
--- a/src/devices/grohtml/post-html.cpp
+++ b/src/devices/grohtml/post-html.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 2000-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright 2000-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
*
* Gaius Mulley ([email protected]) wrote post-html.cpp
* but it owes a huge amount of ideas and raw code from
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