Re: [dev] UTF-8 copyright symbol

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:40 PM, markus schnalke <meillo_AT_marmaro.de> wrote:
> Dwm, surf, and probably more suckless projects contain the copyright
> symbol as UTF-8 character. In most cases, if not always, it is the only
> non-ASCII character in those files.
>
> I suggest to replace it with ``Copyright'' or ``Copyright (c)''.
> (``(c)'' alone is not enough from the lawyer POV, AFAIK.)
>
> Although most modern software can deal with UTF-8 chars, why use them
> when not necessary? In this case, we'll not lose anything but may avoid
> problems.
>
> What speaks against?
>
>
> meillo
>
>

Then again, why bother appealing to copy "rights" and similar hooey in
the first place? I always consider it to be enough simply to appeal to
good sense, good manners, and social pressure to ensure credit is
given where credit is due. Something like "Notice: So-and-so created
this work. Do what you like with it, but don't claim you came up with
it 'cause that's lying. And nobody likes a liar. Thanks."

Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

A.J.
Received on Thu Oct 22 2009 - 20:00:34 UTC