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 Message-ID: <562b3cd3.1J6RucNX8xldmcgb%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20151024130848.0a7e946f@X220.alogt.com> References: <20151023090805.5484ce9b@freyja.zeit4.iv.bundesimmobilien.de> <1445622325.1169.29.camel@michaeleichorn.com> <20151023225424.49220466.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20151024080936.0ff26783@X220.alogt.com> <1445658972.13154.44.camel@michaeleichorn.com> <20151024130848.0a7e946f@X220.alogt.com>
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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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