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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