From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 23 22:24:13 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 2DAD5887 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 22:24:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from uk1rly2283.eechost.net (relay01a.mail.uk1.eechost.net [217.69.40.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E694E817 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 22:24:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [31.186.37.179] (helo=smtp.marelmo.com) by uk1rly2283.eechost.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1U9NW3-0007e7-LH; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 22:24:25 +0000 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.marelmo.com) by smtp.marelmo.com with smtp (Exim 4.80.1 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1U9NVn-000D7C-Nv; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 22:24:07 +0000 Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 22:23:37 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" Subject: Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg? Message-Id: <20130223222337.f68865d83a3051c429b81dd1@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <51293B1E.8010103@gmail.com> References: <20130223171150.eeb88206.freebsd@edvax.de> <20130223183234.cf559a552f31f9b19cf67bd6@sohara.org> <5129140B.6050106@gmail.com> <512935B7.7070008@gmail.com> <51293B1E.8010103@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.3.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Auth-Info: 15567@permanet.ie (plain) Cc: Joshua Isom , 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 22:24:13 -0000 On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:56:46 -0600 "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" wrote: > 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. It's even simpler than that 4.4 BSD Lite2 was the final release from Berkeley CSRG in 1994. There have been no later patches to 4.4BSD from Berkeley, that was the last release of any kind from CSRG. FreeBSD 2.0 was based on 4.4-Lite, the updates in Lite2 were merged in pretty quickly IIRC. > Not that I find it an issue, but could whatever is left over be removed? > Just a thought, not a concern. I can't think why anyone would want to, and I expect there's a *lot* left over, certainly their copyright notice appears in many files in /usr/src. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith