On Feb 20, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote:
> On 20 Feb 2012, at 17:18, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
>> Oh, btw, I would like to get rid of the Oracle licensing phrases during
>> boot...but I can't find any
>> variable in the scripts....is it hardcoded in the source?
>>
>> ...sorry...I don't like to see that at every boot.............. :)
>
> I don't think any of us like seeing it, and I'd be glad to be rid of it too.
>
> However the CDDL states:
>
> "You must include a notice in each of Your Modifications that identifies You
> as the Contributor of the Modification. You may not remove or alter any
> copyright, patent or trademark notices contained within the Covered Software,
> or any notices of licensing or any descriptive text giving attribution to any
> Contributor or the Initial Developer."
>
> The boot message might constitute a copyright, patent or trademark notice.
What we did at Nexenta for 4.0 (if it ever ships) is *add* to that some
statement about Nexenta. I'd love to put a message there about the illumos
foundation, if we ever get one going. Believe me, no one is more rankled about
the Oracle copyright notice than I am -- its ugly and inconvenient, but I think
we have to keep it there.
- Garrett
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