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

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Feb 13 02:35:46 CET 2016


On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 08:18:58PM -0500, Tarl Neustaedter wrote:
> So no legal department is going to allow use of code that shows a naked
> string saying "copyright" and "apple" in the same sentence. It does not
> matter if the words say "we don't mean it", it has the name of a
> corporation with a large legal department, it's safer for the lawyer to
> say "no". They tend to be remarkably unhumorous about things which might
> cost them their jobs.

And the exact same is true for having it in the run-time device tree.

Since when are we "a company in the USA", btw?


Segher



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