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

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Message-ID: <4BD919F5.1080508@kernel.org>
Date:	Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:32:37 +0200
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@....ibm.com>
CC:	trivial@...nel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] trivial: use (C) instead of \251

Hello,

On 04/28/2010 11:55 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Trouble is, the lawyers tell us that "(C)" is legally meaningless.

Ah... okay.

> However, "Copyright" on its own is enough, so if the copyright symbol
> annoys you, we could just remove it.

That's relieving.  It sure is an annoyance for anyone who's not on
latin-1.  It's an outright invalid character and as you've seen it's
not easy to even send a patch changing it.  IMHO, if it were something
which couldn't be avoided at all, encoding it using utf-8 would be
much more appropriate.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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