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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] trivial: use (C) instead of \251
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:18:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BDB573E.6070307@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BDA8DCA.9010401@kernel.org>

On 04/30/2010 12:59 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 04/30/2010 09:55 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> A similar patch was sent a few weeks ago, it was objected to and rejected - 
>> the copyright character was used for legal reasons.
> 
> Paul says that "Copyright" is enough, so what are the legal reasons?
> 
> Also, if the copyright designator absolutely has to be there, then can
> it be in UTF-8 at least?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Transcoding to UTF-8 would seem appropriate.  On the other hand, I am
most definitely not a lawyer.

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-30 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-28  9:30 [PATCH] trivial: use (C) instead of \251 Tejun Heo
2010-04-28 18:42 ` Harald Arnesen
2010-04-28 20:20   ` Tejun Heo
2010-04-29 10:34     ` Harald Arnesen
2010-04-28 21:55 ` Paul Mackerras
2010-04-29  5:32   ` Tejun Heo
2010-04-28 22:41 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-04-29  4:57   ` Paul Mackerras
2010-04-29  5:35     ` Tejun Heo
2010-04-30  7:55   ` Ingo Molnar
2010-04-30  7:59     ` Tejun Heo
2010-04-30 22:18       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-04-30  8:01     ` Jiri Kosina
2010-04-30  8:37       ` Ingo Molnar
2010-04-30  9:04         ` Jiri Kosina
2010-04-30  9:28           ` Ingo Molnar
2010-05-01  0:34           ` Paul Mackerras

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