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

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Fri Apr 30 2010 - 13:07:47 EST


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 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?

Thanks,

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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