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Date:   Wed, 7 Jul 2021 18:41:48 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc:     Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Lets switch to utf-8
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On Wed 2021-07-07 11:04:45, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Nishanth,
> 
> On Fri, Jul 02 2021 at 20:29, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> > Lets drop the unicode characters that peeped in and replace with
> 
> Again: s/Lets// 
> 
> > equivalent utf-8 characters. This makes the CC-BY-4.0 file inline with
> > rest of license files.

s/utf-8/ASCII/? otherwise the description makes no sense...

> >  its public licenses to material it publishes and in those instances
> > -will be considered the “Licensor.” The text of the Creative Commons
> > +will be considered the "Licensor." The text of the Creative Commons
> 
> In theory the License text should be a verbatim copy. But yes, this
> unicode stuff is a pain.

But we use unicode elsewhere for random stuff, and license should
be verbatim, so I'm not sure this is good idea.

			      		  	   Pavel
						   
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