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Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 20:01:49 -0600
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, tridge@...ba.org,
Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>,
Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Ogawa Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option
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.
--
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."
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