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Date:      Sun, 27 May 2007 17:19:49 +1000
From:      Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au>
To:        Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?= <kyrreny@broadpark.no>
Subject:   Re: Fix this: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Message-ID:  <D6810866-CAEC-4C95-9908-9164591F5033@brooknet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <4658F51B.7030507@u.washington.edu>
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On 27/05/2007, at 1:03 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> Kyrre Nyg=E5rd wrote:
>> Hello!
>> Is it possible to change:
>> Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project.
>> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, =20
>> 1993, 1994
>>         The Regents of the University of California. All rights =20
>> reserved.
>> Over to:
>> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, =20
>> 1993, 1994
>>         The Regents of the University of California.
>>         All rights reserved.
>> If so, how is it done?
>> To have `All rights reserved.' apply to both copyright statements, =20=

>> it is necessary to break it down to the next line. It would also =20
>> look a whole lot neater, as the last number of `1994' now aligns =20
>> with the last letter of `reserved' using a monospaced font, which =20
>> ends up looking kind of weird. Trust me on this one.
>> Thank you,
>> Kyrre Nyg=E5rd + mir-visuals.com + snoarc.no
>
> Now why would you want to do that? That's cutting FreeBSD totally =20
> out of the picture, which isn't correct since they're the copyright =20=

> owners of the FreeBSD project from 1992 to today.

I think the point is to reformat the "all rights reserved" statement, =20=

rather than remove a copyright line.




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