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commit 7f0631d3205e1e3d4da5a40a3d420c99de4ae49c
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue Mar 31 17:37:04 2026 -0500
[devutf8]: Cosmetically revise copyright notice.
* font/devutf8/devutf8.am: 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
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font/devutf8/devutf8.am | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/font/devutf8/devutf8.am b/font/devutf8/devutf8.am
index e640efd17..74be2bc7e 100644
--- a/font/devutf8/devutf8.am
+++ b/font/devutf8/devutf8.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.
#
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