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".
Alex
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 ;)
ATB,
Mark.
On 22.05.15 10:48, 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 ;)
I like the idea ;). The respective code could get a big fat comment explaining why we do the hack.
Alex
On 22/05/15 11:07, Alexander Graf wrote:
On 22.05.15 10:48, 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 ;)
I like the idea ;). The respective code could get a big fat comment explaining why we do the hack.
Yeah indeed. The convention in Forth is to surround the "implementation" word in parentheses so I would suggest something like this in arch/ppc/qemu/qemu.fs:
: adler32 ( a b c -- d e f ) ... hack and comment for copyright string .. (adler32)
And then rebind the existing adler32 C implementation to (adler32) instead (which also allows for testing). Over to Cormac again for testing and implementation :)
ATB,
Mark.
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?
Not really anything, but it's not an accurate representation of the real copyright and could be misleading. On May 22, 2015 3:36 PM, "Programmingkid" programmingkidx@gmail.com wrote:
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?
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