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

[Programmingkid]

On May 22, 2015, at 5:01 PM, Cormac O'Brien wrote:

> Not really anything, but it's not an accurate representation of the real copyright and could be misleading.
> 
Then it sounds like the original patch is good enough. Not too many people are going to be looking thru some node for a copyright message when they could just read the license agreement instead. 

> On May 22, 2015 3:36 PM, "Programmingkid" <programmingkidx at 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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