Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 18:32:34 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Subject: Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg? Message-ID: <20130223183234.cf559a552f31f9b19cf67bd6@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20130223171150.eeb88206.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <qviesabrhynrngzbhtbv@koui> <20130223171150.eeb88206.freebsd@edvax.de>
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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. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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