From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 23 21:56:54 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 4BC82166 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 21:56:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jnagyjr1978@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ye0-f179.google.com (mail-ye0-f179.google.com [209.85.213.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB0FB74E for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 21:56:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ye0-f179.google.com with SMTP id m4so338484yen.38 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:56:53 -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=WYWD1kuABTVawiXF+G0Rn+9RVExzGYJz2+UW/WPO6+E=; b=Y5QeEV8tl8oqbjumC1Rr5cY+IdZVgPMVSGzJHy5VIirAhxELN4VDgyxsiaQ2gSk4ru Sl9vLSFX0yfm5Q2rmJMPq1bs55BotrsysMWBzJZzTGRa8Y/ywHY0V+x8ewnlIVDHJ/hV wFlhq0XAxodNt4PTgWqjnAMzooYQy9yBf+B0LJeU3iuhDPB9zSDUVsyRDNo/mBOPBwvY AZrPaf9O68c0M6WsYzuHvaWA6v6BryivVG6gSdiHbWi4bJVgLPFHBugpd77cOlHGSXmY +h+LcQ0vlj2yQEO3wVSLQrbgZceEYKClf+CrsX3BP/7Q+++F7lmmotupzrbTfl7lK9/6 ZMOA== X-Received: by 10.236.132.169 with SMTP id o29mr12475076yhi.88.1361656613220; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:56:53 -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 j13sm9173297ani.19.2013.02.23.13.56.50 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:56:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <51293B1E.8010103@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:56:46 -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: Joshua Isom Subject: Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg? References: <20130223171150.eeb88206.freebsd@edvax.de> <20130223183234.cf559a552f31f9b19cf67bd6@sohara.org> <5129140B.6050106@gmail.com> <512935B7.7070008@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <512935B7.7070008@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: 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 21:56:54 -0000 On 02/23/13 15:33, Joshua Isom wrote: > On 2/23/2013 1:10 PM, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: >> 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. Not that I find it an issue, but could whatever is left over be removed? Just a thought, not a concern. -- 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