Re: [PATCH 04/18] lirc driver for 2nd-gen and later Media CenterEd. USB IR transceivers

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 05:30:57PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Tue,  9 Sep 2008 00:05:49 -0400
> Jarod Wilson <jwilson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > +/*
> > + * LIRC driver for Philips eHome USB Infrared Transceiver
> > + * and the Microsoft MCE 2005 Remote Control
> > + *
> > + * (C) by Martin A. Blatter <martin_a_blatter@xxxxxxxxx>
> > + *
> > + * Transmitter support and reception code cleanup.
> > + * (C) by Daniel Melander <lirc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> As I understand it, proper assertions of copyright need the word
> "copyright" and a year; the "(C)" trigraph doesn't have any legal meaning.
>...

As far as I understand it your statement is only true if you are in
the USA and travel back in time by at least 20 years, and otherwise
no proper assertion is required at all.

Anything I miss?

> jon

cu
Adrian

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