[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] intel: Change vendor string to "Intel® Open Source Technology Center".

[Oliver McFadden]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 11:23:17AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On 6/1/12 3:33 AM, Oliver McFadden wrote:
> 
> > Furthermore it actually doesn't render correctly with my encodings
> > (en_GB and en_US: UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1, and various Finnish and Swedish
> > ones left out for brevity.
> >
> > Okay, problem on my end, but I'm probably not the only one (or maybe I
> > am just an idiot who can't setup encodings correctly.)
> >
> > Wouldn't "Intel(R) Open Source ..." be sufficient?
> 
> Wouldn't "Intel Open Source ..." be sufficient?

I am not a lawyer, period.  Certainly not an Intel lawyer, therefore "no
comment."

That being said, from a technical standpoint, using (R) as standard
ASCII instead of the UTF-8 character might be a good compromise
considering we cannot guarantee correct display of the UTF-8 character
everywhere.

-- 
Oliver McFadden.