[dev] [commits] Horde branch master updated. 09649055a36ab8bd2841fc23c1c53526b814f6b2

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Vilius Šumskas <vilius at lnk.lt>:

> I think someone already pointed out that "(c)" doesn't contain any legal
> value  and  should be replaced with a word "Copyright" (which is already
> there) *or* special symbol "©". Hence you can remove it completely.

That's not true, at least in the U.S.  Although the statue (17 USC  
401(b)(1)) does declare:

"the symbol © (the letter C in a circle), or the word “Copyright”, or  
the abbreviation “Copr.”"

it is widely understood that (c) == ©, especially when dealing with  
character sets that don't support the copyright symbol.  Not to  
mention it is much easier to type (c) then to try to figure out how to  
generate the symbol.

Of course, as of the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 (or any country that  
is as signatory to the Berne convention) there is no legal requirement  
to indicate copyright *at all*.  But as a practical matter, it should  
be displayed.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]