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

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Apr 30 2010 - 13:58:28 EST



* Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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 lkml was not Cc:-ed to that reply (which appears to be the case) then it's
worth asking for / waiting for an explicit ack.

> [...] 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?

And in that case my NAK is moot.

Thanks,

Ingo
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