svn commit: r245450 - in head/sys: arm/allwinner arm/conf boot/fdt/dts

[Eitan Adler]

On 15 January 2013 14:00, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote:
> Ganbold Tsagaankhuu wrote this message on Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 08:26 +0000:
>> + * Copyright (c) 2012 Ganbold Tsagaankhuu. <ganbold at gmail.com>
>
> Also, (c) doesn't add anything.  It needs to be either Copyright (which
> you have) or a c in a circle, the parens around a c have not been given
> legal force...

I am not a lawyer however I do not believe your statement has been
true since the Berne Convention.  Nothing is required to assert
copyright.  A c in a circle, p in a circle, "(c)", and "copyright" are
*all* optional.

That said (c) is widely recognized is a copyright symbol (imho) and
may serve to increase damages from "willful infringement".  That said,
this being BSD licensed code the damages are likely to be minimal
anyways.

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Eitan Adler
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