Not really anything, but it's not an accurate representation of the real copyright and could be misleading.
On May 22, 2015, at 4:48 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 21/05/15 23:37, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
>> On 21.05.15 19:44, Cormac O'Brien wrote:
>>> On 21.05.15 12:18, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>> This requires at least a comment saying that the copyright isn't actually on Apple's side.
>>>
>>> Any legal things to be aware of here?
>>>
>>>> Also, how much of that do they verify?
>>>
>>> As best I can tell, it verifies all of "Copyright 1983-2001 Apple
>>> Computer, Inc.", but it looks like I can add just about anything on
>>> the end. Suggestions?
>>>
>>
>> How about "Copyright 1983-2001 Apple Computer, Inc. THIS STRING IS ONLY
>> HERE BECAUSE OF MAC OS 9 COMPATIBILITY, COPYRIGHT IS WITH THE OPENBIOS
>> PROJECT AND ITS CONTRIBUTORS".
>
> We could also try some evil client detection - if we know that only
> MacOS uses the adler32 word, we could patch it to also update the
> copyright string at the root node of the device tree which won't be
> user-visible from Forth as the bootloader has already executed ;)
What is the worst thing that could happen if we just left this string in memory?