linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] trivial: use (C) instead of \251

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Message-ID: <20100430092835.GI11032@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:28:35 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@....ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] trivial: use (C) instead of \251


* Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > > Well, Paul himself stated that according to their lawyer department, 
> > > "Copyright" (which is there) is enough. So it made sense to remove invalid 
> > > (at least in some sense) character.
> > > 
> > > Also zillion of other files copyrighted by Paul contain "Copyright (C)".
> > > 
> > > If we really want this character there then, why not rather in UTF-8, so 
> > > that it works flawlessly?
> > 
> > It might be fine but i havent seen Paul reply to this thread - and this is my 
> > point: _you_ should have waited for an ack from Paul (who is co-maintaining 
> > that file) before applying it. The commit doesnt have it:
> 
> I got Pauls reply as "as soon as there is `Copyright', it's fine". [...]

If lkml was not Cc:-ed to that reply (which appears to be the case) then it's 
worth asking for / waiting for an explicit ack.

> [...] If I misunderstood it, sorry for that, and I'll drop the patch.
> 
> Paul, could you please send explicit Acked-by: or Naked-by:, so that 
> everything is in line?

And in that case my NAK is moot.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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