Re: [PATCH] modify console_loglevel from commandline

Mirian Crzig Lennox (mirian@xensei.com)
10 Dec 1998 22:22:32 -0500


alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes:

> > Doing this means there is little point having a quiet mode -- because
> > the copyright cruft is a good part of the message on some systems
> > (unless you have lots of SCSI drives).
> >
> > Are we legally required to keep the copyright messages on boot? I
> > thought this would be considered a `restriction' ?
>
> Legally required - I dont think so. Polite - yes

As a counterexample, I'd like to point out that the various BSDs
contain plenty of individually copyrighted kernel code (Justin Gibbs'
CAM code in FreeBSD, for instance), yet they don't spam the user with
a lot of copyright messages on boot. They would in fact consider it
tacky to do so.

-- 
Mirian Crzig Lennox                                Systems Anarchist
          "There's a New World Order coming every minute.
                      Make mine extra cheese."

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