From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 23 21:34:02 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 C33416B6 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 21:34:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-f176.google.com (mail-ob0-f176.google.com [209.85.214.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91C9B67D for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 21:34:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f176.google.com with SMTP id v19so1605149obq.7 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:33:55 -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:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=b58z2IwtSlp7UqqMDs7hPYJXy2gy29bnXLfCpZL/s6M=; b=mDrMJKlBKE39LjVQYo1PUvz3V8EBxUmsMi+wyPJqWuDEnKN/jiK9teIPlde/bZkPHr 8wAnarTvipOajy5F6ZD8h59RxCvnHazLs+FEkKBtFF5olQSkF8njI43v8eWj8i04cGWt gv2CbxjDmrtUBVbxD3e01SlRwhdwfAvXASLJPUo0T8T+aX3v0/cwzTpFYjyGpfoUUSQR aJEkvMtVhbb8jwmu0FuhnHBGr3nDh9GQA2Hsjswj5ziscINvGMXvaA8s5dLgh3Uh10oe xevaO41yP+yeJRK6Hbin5w/neQx7L2+pa06PYnEbJYrhzfHKpODMajliB0liwIl3Varw hpLw== X-Received: by 10.60.18.167 with SMTP id x7mr3123330oed.95.1361655235847; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:33:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.14] (c-98-212-197-211.hsd1.il.comcast.net. [98.212.197.211]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p2sm3036986obb.6.2013.02.23.13.33.54 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:33:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <512935B7.7070008@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:33:43 -0600 From: Joshua Isom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130215 Thunderbird/17.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg? References: <20130223171150.eeb88206.freebsd@edvax.de> <20130223183234.cf559a552f31f9b19cf67bd6@sohara.org> <5129140B.6050106@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5129140B.6050106@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 21:34:02 -0000 On 2/23/2013 1:10 PM, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: > 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. :-) Copyright counts for published years. Look at the copyright on a book that's not a first edition, try classic children's books. They'll list several years decades apart. If nothing was published in 1983, there's no new copyright for that year. In 2077, what was released in 1982 will be public domain, and nothing more until 2079. >> 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? > Perhaps the creation of FreeBSD and the release of 4.4BSD? Nothing from Berkley's been added, so no new copyright. There's little need to incorporate later patches to 4.4BSD because divergences between the 4.4BSD and FreeBSD.