Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option

[Paul E. McKenney]

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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