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

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Apr 30 2010 - 18:19:04 EST


On 04/30/2010 12:59 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 04/30/2010 09:55 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> A similar patch was sent a few weeks ago, it was objected to and rejected -
>> the copyright character was used for legal reasons.
>
> Paul says that "Copyright" is enough, so what are the legal reasons?
>
> Also, if the copyright designator absolutely has to be there, then can
> it be in UTF-8 at least?
>
> Thanks.
>

Transcoding to UTF-8 would seem appropriate. On the other hand, I am
most definitely not a lawyer.

-hpa

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