copyright paranoia



FYI -- Any copyright notice which contains a '(C)' should be changed to
remove those three characters.

That is a remnant of the old computing days when the c-with-a-circle
wasn't available in the ASCII font.  Current copyright law says that
electronic form should omit the '(c)' completely, if you cannot make the
full c-with-a-circle.

Implicit copyright still applies even though the copyright notice itself
may be wrong (as are many of the GNOME and GTK+ files).

I don't have any in-depth links at hand, but here is the FSF's blurb on
copyrights:  http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain_4.html#SEC4

Additional, since at least one GNOME version has been release in '98, we
should probably add to every source file
	Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
if you don't want to copyright it to yourself.

	Jeff



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