Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

David Weinehall
2004-08-08T07:47:52Z

On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 05:33:39AM +0300, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Sunday 08 August 2004 02:19, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> > Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> >
> > > BTW while I remember cdrecord has a bug with hardcoded iso8859-1
> > > copyright symbols in it which mean your copyright banner is invalid
> > > unicode on a UTF-8 locale.
> >
> > Does that also invalidate the copyright?
> >
>
> I was under the impression that printing copyright symbols isn't required.
> You have copyright on what you write unless you explicitly assign it away,
> which supposedly isn't even possible in some parts of the world, that is,
> you always retain copyright nomatter what.
>
> <insert standard IANAL(IACOTW) disclaimer>

In *some* countries your copyright claim is strengthened by having
a "Copyright" and/or "©" clause. Writing (C) has no legal effect
however, so you should always write out the full word, like so:

Copyright © 2004 Foo Bar, Baz Inc.

Regards: David Weinehall
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