From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756192Ab0AWSvl (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:51:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755925Ab0AWSvk (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:51:40 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f226.google.com ([209.85.219.226]:63701 "EHLO mail-ew0-f226.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755894Ab0AWSvj convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:51:39 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 417 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:51:39 EST DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=oous/V+kp42H3Fiv7GCjh+zExYwGPIGpc6VlAtg2BFMeb8WElz2CR8qtret2ayLlqA mkB3dhNeTExF02iXIj0dGpfZtrxlSFtC/8aBhsgdWEKLqBBtYb/yGJAtgqUtDWMSia4k lYuTHjy0oNirkRBUEHQWyQk8JhupvOahD8t3I= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100123090005.GA3897@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <20100122102541.GA21430@xhl> <20100123090005.GA3897@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:44:40 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: Replace the extended ASCII copyright char to normal ASCII sequence From: Steve McKay To: Paul Mackerras , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:25:41PM +0800, Li Hong wrote: > >> A copyright extended ASCII char (0xa9) in kernel/perf_event.c makes my utf-8 >> compatible vim think it is a binary file. It is better to either use a utf-8 >> sequence 0xc20xa9 or just normal copyright ASCII chars '(C)'. > > The trouble is, I've been informed that "(C)" has no legal meaning -- > it is not equivalent to the C-in-a-circle copyright symbol.  That's > why I put the extended ASCII character in there.  I wouldn't mind the > utf-8 sequence instead though. > > Paul. >>From the Copyright Law FAQ: A proper copyright notice consists of three things: 1) the letter "C" in a circle (called, logically enough, the "copyright symbol"), or the word "Copyright," or the abbreviation "Copr."; 2) the year of first publication; 3) the name of the copyright owner. 17 U.S.C. 401(b). http://www.faqs.org/faqs/law/copyright/faq/part2/ http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap4.html (C) and © appear to be unnecessary if Copyright is already present. IANAL, side effects may include, not intended to diagnose, treat, or prevent, etc.