Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:10:03 -0600 From: "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" <jnagyjr1978@gmail.com> To: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg? Message-ID: <5129140B.6050106@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130223183234.cf559a552f31f9b19cf67bd6@sohara.org> References: <qviesabrhynrngzbhtbv@koui> <20130223171150.eeb88206.freebsd@edvax.de> <20130223183234.cf559a552f31f9b19cf67bd6@sohara.org>
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On 02/23/13 12:32, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:11:50 +0100 > Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > >> On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:47:10 +0100, vermaden wrote: >>> Why not simplify that: >>> >>> | Copyright (c) 1992-2013 The FreeBSD Project. >>> | Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, >>> | 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. >>> | FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. >>> | (...) >>> >>> ... into that: >>> >>> | Copyright (c) 1992-2013 The FreeBSD Project. >>> | Copyright (c) 1979-1994 The Regents of the University of California. >>> | FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. >>> | (...) >> >> Because you need to exclude 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987 and 1990 >> which are missing in list of years. :-) > > There's that, also that copyright message belongs to the Regents of > the University of California and unless I misremember one of the license > conditions is retaining their copyright notice - altering it would probably > be a license violation. > It seems the regents copyright claims end in 1994. Perhaps some underlying piece of code is still in FreeBSD requiring this notice? -- Yours in Christ, Joseph A Nagy Jr "Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, But he who hates correction is stupid." -- Proverbs 12:1 Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content CopyFree (F) under the OWL http://copyfree.org/licenses/owl/license.txt
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