From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 23 19:10:12 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8575CE17 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 19:10:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jnagyjr1978@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gg0-x231.google.com (gg-in-x0231.1e100.net [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4002:c02::231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D3CEDE0 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 19:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-gg0-f177.google.com with SMTP id q1so320700gge.22 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:10:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Wjcpp+YJFqZxa9KCMHFu/25PPaEugCd/PWE/0io89Jo=; b=j0H4fJIcTaSXWyUFc9ovwRQFke9tz+OhRjs5lK5FdRMX8AMQQaO3ovTCVv/q8l1LVw 3ybsxBG/oeCLOcGDQGrlaiPel/eajMIYDWPfZRm9ZwM7mHMSfM5xcQJCnTZfZ0gPwbSo pSqUYdwxARemb16KVggGebWb21kN+GXG922tsKTn+G0SjPIjp0HBHp/DetNuAw6scZB9 S8icb19jqwBTfYOGYikoJkehEfANysPCDCDbZANPBQiLZwcRXkw9doS7X53TH5i1lh6P QUOtur6i03cPn7QN6iBw9Tr2JkigIzMFaCX+Bf8nhdJbKBLJK2ZrVJeWx8QfRRPKpei3 gWQA== X-Received: by 10.236.146.137 with SMTP id r9mr11868202yhj.98.1361646611840; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:10:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.2] (24-183-225-51.dhcp.kgpt.tn.charter.com. [24.183.225.51]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v11sm8823459anq.2.2013.02.23.11.10.07 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:10:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5129140B.6050106@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:10:03 -0600 From: "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130221 Thunderbird/17.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve O'Hara-Smith Subject: Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg? References: <20130223171150.eeb88206.freebsd@edvax.de> <20130223183234.cf559a552f31f9b19cf67bd6@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20130223183234.cf559a552f31f9b19cf67bd6@sohara.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Polytropon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 19:10:12 -0000 On 02/23/13 12:32, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:11:50 +0100 > Polytropon 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