On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 07:11:21PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 08:01:49PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 03:12:08PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > But what was wrong with what they told us to do with regards to how to > > > specify the copyright on a file? I don't recall seeing anything that > > > contridicted what I was told, but that was many many years ago, so I > > > probably am forgetting... > > > > I don't remember exactly, and can't be bothered to look it up. It was > > something along the lines of you saying an IBM lawyer had told you > > that in: > > > > Copyright (c) 2009 > > > > the (c) was a non-optional part. I found something that said the (c) > > had no legal meaning. > > http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.pdf > > Page 4, bottom of first column through second column. That notices actually aren't needed any more? Yes. The bit I was referring to was this: 1 The symbol © (the letter C in a circle), or the word "Copyright," or the abbreviation "Copr."; and In particular, I've seen elsewhere that (c) is not a valid representation of 'the letter C in a circle'. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
