Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] edu: fix license information

[Markus Armbruster]

Jiri Slaby <address@hidden> writes:

> On 01/22/2015, 10:04 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Jiri Slaby <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <address@hidden>
>>> ---
>>>  docs/specs/edu.txt | 4 ++++
>>>  hw/misc/edu.c      | 2 +-
>>>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/docs/specs/edu.txt b/docs/specs/edu.txt
>>> index 360af27ec8b1..1a23df9d21f6 100644
>>> --- a/docs/specs/edu.txt
>>> +++ b/docs/specs/edu.txt
>>> @@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
>>>  EDU device
>>>  ==========
>>>  
>>> +Copyleft (c) 2014-2015 Jiri Slaby
>> 
>> IANAL, but I'm afraid you have to spell this "Copyright" to carry legal
>> weight.
>
> Not quite as (c) is enough. GPLv2 is a copyleft license.

Quoting <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html>:

    Always use the English word “Copyright”; by international
    convention, this is used worldwide, even for material in other
    languages. The copyright symbol “©” can be included if you wish (and
    your character set supports it), but it's not necessary. There is no
    legal significance to using the three-character sequence “(C)”,
    although it does no harm.