[haiku-development] Re: About $application

On 6/9/07, Jonas Sundström <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Can't we keep the pacman instead? ;)

(Is there a standard on this?)


I just did an "informal poll" on my Windows XP machine and here are the results:

- FireFox just uses the "pacman"
- iTunes uses "Copyright pacman"
- uTorrent just uses the pacman
- VMWare uses "Copyright pacman"
- Internet Explorer (and other MS software) uses "Copyright pacman"
- AIM uses "Copyright pacman"
- Media Player Classic uses "Copyright (C)"
- Putty just uses the pacman
- FileZilla uses "Copyright (C)"
- 7-zip uses "Copyright (c)"
- Google Video Player just uses the pacman
- KeyNote uses "Copyright (c)"
- Nero just uses "(c)"
- Directory Opus uses "Copyright pacman"

So really using "Copyright pacman" (or "Copyright (C)") is pretty common.

But according to http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.html, the
pacman (or c in a circle) can be used or the word Copyright (and
apparently Copr.) can be used. So I suppose using both is redundant.
But I don't think it hurts ;)

Ryan

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