From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 20:34:42 -0700 Message-ID: <20090505033442.GB6982@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <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> <20090505021121.GA6982@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090505021853.GF8822@parisc-linux.org> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Greg KH , "Eric W. Biederman" , tridge@samba.org, Al Viro , Pavel Machek , Christoph Hellwig , Steve French , Dave Kleikamp , Ogawa Hirofumi , linux-fsdevel , Michael Tokarev , LKML To: Matthew Wilcox Return-path: Received: from e8.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.138]:55968 "EHLO e8.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751807AbZEEDep (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 23:34:45 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090505021853.GF8822@parisc-linux.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 08:18:53PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 07:11:21PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > 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 anythin= g that > > > > contridicted what I was told, but that was many many years ago,= so I > > > > probably am forgetting... > > >=20 > > > I don't remember exactly, and can't be bothered to look it up. I= t was > > > something along the lines of you saying an IBM lawyer had told yo= u > > > that in: > > >=20 > > > Copyright (c) 2009 > > >=20 > > > the (c) was a non-optional part. I found something that said the= (c) > > > had no legal meaning. > >=20 > > http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.pdf > >=20 > > Page 4, bottom of first column through second column. >=20 > That notices actually aren't needed any more? Yes. The bit I was > referring to was this: >=20 > 1 The symbol =A9 (the letter C in a circle), or the word > "Copyright," or the abbreviation "Copr."; and >=20 > In particular, I've seen elsewhere that (c) is not a valid representa= tion > of 'the letter C in a circle'. I am more than happy to let you search the case law on this one. Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html