Robert Millan wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:21:40AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: >>>>> - "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. > > ^^^^^ > >>Not unless you are the copyright holder. > > I meant to say "from the boot message" here. Does this also apply to the boot > log? Your other response below seems to indicate otherwise: > >>[...] alternatively, you could remove the copyright notice *from the >>boot messages* (since it is not the copyright notice which is governing >>the work).
Right; you can't remove the copyright notice or the "all rights reserved" notice that actually governs the work itself, but you can definitely remove a random print statement from the boot messages. - Josh Triplett
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