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

From: Harald Arnesen
Date: Fri Apr 30 2010 - 13:47:52 EST


Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 04/28/2010 08:42 PM, Harald Arnesen wrote:
>> Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> The latin-1 copyright character \251 is invalid in ASCII or UTF-8 and
>>> causes annoying problems with some editors and tools. Use (C)
>>> instead.
>>
>> Why do we need anything there at all?
>
> We don't necessarily need it but it's also pretty rude to strip
> other's copyright notices and other entries use (C), so.... :-)

I meant that:

Copyright  somename
Copyright (C) somename
Copyright somename

all have the same legal meaning.
--
Hilsen Harald.
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