- You discourage the use of (*, because displaying "(" would be
difficult on some terminals, but afaik { is also?
We discourage old style comments like (* this *) because in fact `{' and `}' are available everywhere these days. I tried to grep the document but don't see where you got this from...
- The document itself has no copyright statement.
If you're reading the HTML version this is true. There are copyright statements in the Texinfo source, though, but this might not be enough. However, I see that also the HTML online version of the GNU Coding Standards doesn't hold a copyright notice, either. Maybe we can add it to our HTML version, though. Frank or Peter, what do you think?
Thanks for the feedback!
Best regards,
Nick