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Bug#335898: marked as done (bogus "all rights reserved" message)

Your message dated Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:22:23 +0100
with message-id <20080112172222.GA18034@volta.aurel32.net>
and subject line bogus "all rights reserved" message
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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Package: kfreebsd-5
Severity: normal

The following lines are printed by kFreeBSD when boot starts:

"Copyright (c) 1992-2005 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."

I think there two problems with that:

  - "All rights reserved" would imply that the software is not licensed at all,
    which isn't true.  The answers I got from #debian-devel indicate it's
    perfectly legal to remove this message for clarification.

  - These lines were added to advertise BSD 4.4 and FreeBSD, but our system
    is much different, and contains code copyrighted by a lot other contributors
    (FSF, SPI, X, etc).  In this context, I think advertising UCB doesn't make
    any sense.  As for FreeBSD, I'm not so sure.  Perhaps we should keep it, but
    still indicate that this copyright doesn't refer to the whole system as it
    did on FreeBSD.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: kfreebsd-i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: GNU/kFreeBSD 5.4-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)

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On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 05:49:59PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> Package: kfreebsd-5
> Severity: normal
> 
> The following lines are printed by kFreeBSD when boot starts:
> 
> "Copyright (c) 1992-2005 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."
> 
> I think there two problems with that:
> 
>   - "All rights reserved" would imply that the software is not licensed at all,
>     which isn't true.  The answers I got from #debian-devel indicate it's
>     perfectly legal to remove this message for clarification.
> 
>   - These lines were added to advertise BSD 4.4 and FreeBSD, but our system
>     is much different, and contains code copyrighted by a lot other contributors
>     (FSF, SPI, X, etc).  In this context, I think advertising UCB doesn't make
>     any sense.  As for FreeBSD, I'm not so sure.  Perhaps we should keep it, but
>     still indicate that this copyright doesn't refer to the whole system as it
>     did on FreeBSD.
> 

This is a bogus bug report. While we can remove those line from the boot
log, I see no reason of doing that. The kernel is published under this
license, so that's ok to print this message, just as the Linux kernel
does for some modules.

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