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Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 20:01:49 -0600
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option
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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."