[OpenBIOS] [PATCH] ppc: add Apple copyright string

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

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.