Re: (c) does not equal "copyright"

[Graham Percival]

AFAIK, nothing really came from this thread, and I can't even
remember what I replied at the time.  My opinion now: if that's
the legal advice from GNU, let's do it.  Mark, are you willing to
do this, or shall we open an issue on the tracker for it?

Cheers,
- Graham

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 07:21:00PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote:
> Is this something to address? A lot of LP source files use (c) and not
> "Copyright", despite this legal advice from GNU:
> 
> Always use the English word “Copyright”; by international convention,
> this is used worldwide, even for material in other languages. The
> copyright symbol “©” can be included if you wish (and your character set
> supports it), but it's not necessary. There is no legal significance to
> using the three-character sequence “(C)”, although it does no harm.
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html
> 
> - Mark
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