From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 20:01:49 -0600 Message-ID: <20090505020149.GE8822@parisc-linux.org> References: <20090504124433.GW8822@parisc-linux.org> <20090504130638.GN7141@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090504132119.GX8822@parisc-linux.org> <20090504143919.GA6740@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090504150834.GZ8822@parisc-linux.org> <20090504153815.GB6740@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090504155505.GA8822@parisc-linux.org> <20090504161024.GC6740@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090504162252.GB8822@parisc-linux.org> <20090504221208.GB29402@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" , "Eric W. Biederman" , tridge@samba.org, Al Viro , Pavel Machek , Christoph Hellwig , Steve French , Dave Kleikamp , Ogawa Hirofumi , linux-fsdevel , Michael Tokarev , LKML To: Greg KH Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:46206 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753860AbZEECBu (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 22:01:50 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090504221208.GB29402@kroah.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 03:12:08PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > But what was wrong with what they told us to do with regards to how to > specify the copyright on a file? I don't recall seeing anything that > contridicted what I was told, but that was many many years ago, so I > probably am forgetting... I don't remember exactly, and can't be bothered to look it up. It was something along the lines of you saying an IBM lawyer had told you that in: Copyright (c) 2009 the (c) was a non-optional part. I found something that said the (c) had no legal meaning. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."