Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759532Ab0D3WS7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:18:59 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:39035 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754825Ab0D3WS5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:18:57 -0400 Message-ID: <4BDB573E.6070307@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:18:38 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100330 Fedora/3.0.4-1.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tejun Heo CC: Ingo Molnar , Jiri Kosina , lkml , Paul Mackerras Subject: Re: [PATCH] trivial: use (C) instead of \251 References: <4BD80037.9060704@kernel.org> <20100430075510.GA21105@elte.hu> <4BDA8DCA.9010401@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <4BDA8DCA.9010401@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 780 Lines: 25 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/