[haiku-development] Re: About $application
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:17:09 +0200 CEST
> 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 ;)
It seems to me using both is the most common practice, however as said
it seems redundant, according to this as well:
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
François.
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