From cwjordanoi at cox.net  Mon Oct  3 21:00:32 2011
From: cwjordanoi at cox.net (cwjordanoi at cox.net)
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 17:00:32 -0400
Subject: [Bugs-team] feature #1559 "Change boot-up Copyright notice from
 Oracle to OpenIndiana"
Message-ID: <20111003170032.6UQOJ.1950378.imail@eastrmwml49>

Feature #1559 requests that we "Change boot-up Copyright notice from Oracle to OpenIndiana".  I assume that can't be done, since that's the copyright notice for the kernel, which really is copyright Oracle isn't it?

Chris Jordan
cwjordanoi at cox.net


From jw at vtoc.de  Wed Oct  5 11:18:34 2011
From: jw at vtoc.de (Julian Wiesener)
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:18:34 +0200
Subject: [Bugs-team] feature #1559 "Change boot-up Copyright notice from
 Oracle to OpenIndiana"
In-Reply-To: <20111003170032.6UQOJ.1950378.imail@eastrmwml49>
References: <20111003170032.6UQOJ.1950378.imail@eastrmwml49>
Message-ID: <1317813514.5824.7.camel@laphroaig>

Hey Chris,

On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 17:00 -0400, cwjordanoi at cox.net wrote:
> Feature #1559 requests that we "Change boot-up Copyright notice from Oracle to OpenIndiana".  I assume that can't be done, since that's the copyright notice for the kernel, which really is copyright Oracle isn't it?

i'm not a lawyer but i don't think there is any problem about a change.
Changing a message that got printed of course doesn't change the
copyright of the source code, it is more about the freedom of calling or
not calling a function. I don't think the CDDL have a clause that
require to call a "print copyright message" function. It might be
problematic if you print only an illumos/oi message without
acknowledging oracles ip, however, not printing the message at all,
should be safe.

However, since it is an illimos decision what to print out from kernel,
i suggest you assing the bug to OI Illumos. I don't think we would patch
away an Illumos Copyright message if it appears.


Regards,
Julian



