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

[Vilius Šumskas]

Sveiki,

Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 9:12:45 PM, you wrote:

> 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  

True,  but when considering *legal* value the only symbol "in the books"
is C in a _circle_.

I will try to check this with our company lawyer tomorrow.

Anyway,  it  should  be at least consistent with the rest of packages.
Currently most packages does contain only "Copyright".

> 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

> ___________________________________
> Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]




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Best regards,
 Vilius