Pablo Neira Ayuso <pa...@netfilter.org> wrote:
> Several reasons for this:
> 
> * Several modules maintain internal version numbers, that they print at
>   boot/module load time, that are not exposed to userspace, as a
>   primitive mechanism to make revision number control from the earlier
>   days of Netfilter.
> 
> * IPset shows the protocol version at boot/module load time, instead
>   display this via module description, as Jozsef suggested.
> 
> * Remove copyright notice at boot/module load time in two spots, the
>   Netfilter codebase is a collective development effort, if we would
>   have to display copyrights for each contributor at boot/module load
>   time for each extensions we have, we would probably fill up logs with
>   lots of useless information - from a technical standpoint.
> 
> So let's be consistent and remove them all.

Acked-by: Florian Westphal <f...@strlen.de>
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