[PATCH weston] Update COPYING

[Daniel Stone]

Hi Jan,

On 15 February 2017 at 15:05, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh at inai.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday 2017-02-15 16:02, Derek Foreman wrote:
>>> diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
>>> index faefd8f..418b4b4 100644
>>> --- a/COPYING
>>> +++ b/COPYING
>>> @@ -1,8 +1,35 @@
>>> +Copyright © 2008 Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
>>> +Copyright © 2008-2013 Kristian Høgsberg
>
> Since © already means Copyright, one of the two is redundant.

Thanks, but whilst that is true, this form is the dominant form in
Wayland and Weston, in X.Org (where the habit came from, I assume), a
sizeable minority in Mesa (~25%), and a much smaller minority in the
kernel as well. Given that this makes things extremely clear and
unambiguous, I don't intend to expend any effort changing the wording,
only to find out later that one jurisdiction requires the literal word
'copyright' and another requires the symbol.

Cheers,
Daniel