From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-mktree: reverse of git-ls-tree. Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:49:40 -0800 Message-ID: <7vr75x11or.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <7vk6bp43qm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <1140504750.16926.111.camel@evo.keithp.com> <43FAD35E.5080401@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Keith Packard X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 21 10:50:16 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FBU9u-0002ZU-JI for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:50:14 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932721AbWBUJtn (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 04:49:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932722AbWBUJtn (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 04:49:43 -0500 Received: from fed1rmmtao11.cox.net ([68.230.241.28]:9670 "EHLO fed1rmmtao11.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932721AbWBUJtm (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 04:49:42 -0500 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.4.9.127]) by fed1rmmtao11.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060221094807.UDGH6244.fed1rmmtao11.cox.net@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 04:48:07 -0500 To: Andreas Ericsson User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Andreas Ericsson writes: > Keith Packard wrote: >> >> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 22:37 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >>>+ * Copyright (c) Junio C Hamano, 2006 >> I've been told by at least two lawyers that the string '(c)' has no >> legal meaning in the US. If you want to indicate copyright, the only >> symbol which does carry legal weight is the c-in-a-circle mark >... > I'm not sure how mad such a law can be written, but what you describe > go against both common sense and common practice since it puts the > burden of protection on the victim-to-be before the crime is even > committed... Keith is saying that unlike ciecle-c, (c) is meaningless. While he is right about that, it does not matter, as long as he is talking about "legal meaning in the US". It is my understanding that spelled out "Copyright" (or its abbreviation, "Copr.") weighs as much as the circle-c mark. And it matters even less these days. US law traditionally required copyright notice to be protected, but after 1989 US Copyright Act, made in line with Berne convention, the notice is not even necessary. It used to be that you would want circle-c, Copyright and "All Rights Reserved", if you really wanted to be anal. Buenos Aires signatories are all Berne members these days, it became just obsolete inertia.