Re: [PATCH] modify console_loglevel from commandline

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 11 Dec 1998 04:33:06 +0000 (GMT)

> 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.

Instead they require you paste half of them all over any advertising
material and the manual.

Personally Im not too bothered by hiding the copyrights. GPL code means
you get source, they are in dmesg etc. But I do know some people who
took offence at the caldera one and the netwinder one. Hard decisions ...
lets leave it for Linus ;)

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