[Bugs-team] feature #1559 "Change boot-up Copyright notice from Oracle to OpenIndiana"

[Julian Wiesener]

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