On 2/23/2013 4:23 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:56:46 -0600
"Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" <jnagyjr1...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 02/23/13 15:33, Joshua Isom wrote:
On 2/23/2013 1:10 PM, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote:
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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.
It would matter when it was released, not merged. If it was merged in
1996 but the code was released in 1994, the copyright's still 1994.
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.
That also ties in with NIH syndrome. Gnu does that a lot just to make
sure they can change to GPLv4 without problems, while Linux is still
GPLv2. It's also not just Berkeley, but other people and organizations
hold copyrights. From a quick glance, netatalk is by the University of
Michigan. Mounting a cd using cd9660, which is still listed as
Berkeley, is probably so tested and proven by now, that there would be
no benefit to rewriting it other than to change the copyright.
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