New feature for KDE 3.5.4 - KAlarm

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Tuesday 20 June 2006 00:30, Jaison Lee wrote:
> On 6/19/06, Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org> wrote:
> > One concern: Is replacing the "(c)" by the corresponding symbol in
> > the copyright notice a good idea? What was the conclusion of the
> > discussion about this?
>
> This change is fine. Even preferable.
>
> A 'c-in-parenthesis' has no legal meaning and might as well not be
> there. The copyright symbol is not strictly necessary (only the word
> 'Copyright') but is better than having a c-in-parenthesis. All our
> source files are unicode; there are already dozens of contributors
> with unicode symbols for their names already in header blurbs all
> over.  And yes, there are other copyright symbols here and there
> already also.
>
> There was some question as to whether or not we should go through and
> change *all* the c-in-parenthesis to the copyright symbol, but I
> don't see this as the same discussion.

The copyright symbol can be used as abbreviation of the word "Copyright" 
_in place of_ the word "Copyright". Since we use the long form 
"Copyright" in all our source files we can simply get rid of the 
meaningless "(C)", but there's no need to add a superfluous © instead.

I mean what's the point in writing
  Copyright copyright 2001-2006 by David Jarvie
which
  Copyright © 2001-2006 by David Jarvie
effectively translates to?

Regards,
Ingo
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