Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:44:40 -0600 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] perf: Replace the extended ASCII copyright char to normal ASCII sequence | From | Steve McKay <> |
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On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> 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 <year> <name> is already present. IANAL, side effects may include, not intended to diagnose, treat, or prevent, etc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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