From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 19:11:21 -0700
Message-ID: <20090505021121.GA6982@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
References: <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> <20090505020149.GE8822@parisc-linux.org>
Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>, tridge@samba.org,
	Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>,
	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ogawa Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Return-path: <linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org>
Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:51110 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com"
	rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP
	id S1752423AbZEECLY (ORCPT <rfc822;linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>);
	Mon, 4 May 2009 22:11:24 -0400
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20090505020149.GE8822@parisc-linux.org>
Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org
List-ID: <linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org>

On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 08:01:49PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 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.

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.pdf

Page 4, bottom of first column through second column.

							Thanx, Paul