linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Lets switch to utf-8

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Date:   Fri, 2 Jul 2021 18:34:25 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>,
        Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-spdx@...r.kernel.org,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Rahul T R <r-ravikumar@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Lets switch to utf-8

On 7/2/21 6:29 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> Lets drop the unicode characters that peeped in and replace with
> equivalent utf-8 characters. This makes the CC-BY-4.0 file inline with
> rest of license files.
> 
> This messes up code such as scripts/spdxcheck.py which assumed utf-8
> LICENSE files.
> 
> Fixes: bc41a7f36469 ("LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license")
> 
> Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>
> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
> 
> Reported-by: Rahul T R <r-ravikumar@...com>
> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>
> ---
> also see: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spdx/20210703012128.27946-1-nm@ti.com/T/#u
> 
>  LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0 | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0 b/LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0
> index 45a81b8e4669..869cad3d1643 100644
> --- a/LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0
> +++ b/LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0
> @@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ Section 8 -- Interpretation.
>  Creative Commons is not a party to its public
>  licenses. Notwithstanding, Creative Commons may elect to apply one of
>  its public licenses to material it publishes and in those instances
> -will be considered the “Licensor.” The text of the Creative Commons
> +will be considered the "Licensor." The text of the Creative Commons
>  public licenses is dedicated to the public domain under the CC0 Public
>  Domain Dedication. Except for the limited purpose of indicating that
>  material is shared under a Creative Commons public license or as
> 

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>

Thanks.

-- 
~Randy