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From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To:     Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>,
        Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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        Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
        Rahul T R <r-ravikumar@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Lets switch to utf-8
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Date:   Mon, 12 Jul 2021 10:03:53 -0600
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Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> writes:

> Lets drop the unicode characters that peeped in and replace with
> equivalent utf-8 characters. This makes the CC-BY-4.0 file inline with
> rest of license files.
>
> This messes up code such as scripts/spdxcheck.py which assumed utf-8
> LICENSE files.
>
> Fixes: bc41a7f36469 ("LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license")
>
> Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
>
> Reported-by: Rahul T R <r-ravikumar@ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
> ---
> also see: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spdx/20210703012128.27946-1-nm@ti=
.com/T/#u
>
>  LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0 | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0 b/LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0
> index 45a81b8e4669..869cad3d1643 100644
> --- a/LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0
> +++ b/LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0
> @@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ Section 8 -- Interpretation.
>  Creative Commons is not a party to its public
>  licenses. Notwithstanding, Creative Commons may elect to apply one of
>  its public licenses to material it publishes and in those instances
> -will be considered the =E2=80=9CLicensor.=E2=80=9D The text of the Creat=
ive Commons
> +will be considered the "Licensor." The text of the Creative Commons
>  public licenses is dedicated to the public domain under the CC0 Public

...and I've applied this one as well.

Thanks,

jon