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Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 20:34:42 -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 08:18:53PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 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'.
I am more than happy to let you search the case law on this one.
Thanx, Paul
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