linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH

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Message-ID: <20090505021121.GA6982@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 4 May 2009 19:11:21 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.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 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.

							Thanx, Paul
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