Hi Ralf and all, I don't know if there is either legal or by-convention significance to
There is no significance to the whitespace in the copyright "line". (Nor does it have to be on one physical line.) At Jim's suggestion, I replaced the two spaces with one in maintain.texi. I do remember patches to explicitly add back those two spaces to some GNU projects. I guess I wasn't involved, or have forgotten. At any rate, FWIW, I can't imagine an important reason for it. Not even a '(C)', oops! (C) is neither required nor forbidden. I tend to omit it in new files, saving three more characters for those pesky year lists :). I just changed the maintain.texi text along those lines.