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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Problem with GNAT modified GPL and SourceForge
Date: 15 Feb 2002 19:15:30 +0000
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Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com> writes:

> That is surprising.  I had thought that the US and most European
> countries followed the Berne Convention for copyrights, so the rules
> should be about the same in most places.  I seem to recall that
> "(c)" is not a valid copyright indication; you need either the
> c-in-a-circle symbol or the word "copyright".  Could that be what
> you're referring to?

But (again IANAL) (c) or Copyright or whatever is only restating what
is in any case a fact so as to avoid violators' claiming ignorance.

I don't _think_ it was the (c) vs c-in-a-circle ...