From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757957AbZEECTM (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 22:19:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754456AbZEECSz (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 22:18:55 -0400 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:48917 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753901AbZEECSy (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 22:18:54 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 20:18:53 -0600 From: Matthew Wilcox To: "Paul E. McKenney" 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option Message-ID: <20090505021853.GF8822@parisc-linux.org> References: <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> <20090505021121.GA6982@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20090505021121.GA6982@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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. That notices actually aren't needed any more? Yes. The bit I was referring to was this: 1 The symbol © (the letter C in a circle), or the word "Copyright," or the abbreviation "Copr."; and In particular, I've seen elsewhere that (c) is not a valid representation of 'the letter C in a circle'. -- 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."