[OpenBIOS] [PATCH 0/7] ppc: improve fake copyright message handling

[Segher Boessenkool]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:40:33PM +0100, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
> I still think that including the actual copyright string (even if 
> obfuscated) is legally more questionable than using a string that 
> is clearly for compatibility only as suggested before in these posts:
> 
> http://www.openfirmware.info/pipermail/openbios/2015-May/008703.html
> http://www.openfirmware.info/pipermail/openbios/2015-June/008710.html
> 
> I think Apple expected the year part to be updated every year so it can be 
> expected that those chars are not checked and if we ever find a Mac OS 
> version that does, we could change it then.

That would have to be a new Mac OS version, one that doesn't exist yet!

> This would also avoid the 
> unnecessarily complicated obfuscation that may not have any usefulness 
> against legal problems and just make this a one line forth patch.

Yes.  The obfuscation makes it seem like we cannot include the "real thing",
which we actually *can* (and no, IANAL either); but we do want to indicate
this is not an Apple firmware to *help our users*.


Segher