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Date:      Sat, 24 Oct 2015 01:09:55 -0700
From:      perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison)
To:        erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com
Cc:        ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: replace uname -a informational string
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[restored the OP's Cc as requested in the initial post]

Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote:

> As somebody else has mentioned, changing the copyright notice in
> the kernel would have a legal impact.

As the System 5 settlement of some years ago emphasized, concealing
the origin of the code is one of the very few things that may *not*
legally be done under the BSD license.

Not that this should be at all a problem:  security that depends
on such obscurities is worth very little against any but the most
casual attacker.



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