Fix this: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Sam Lawrance boris at brooknet.com.au
Sun May 27 08:15:13 UTC 2007


On 27/05/2007, at 1:03 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> Kyrre Nygård wrote:
>> Hello!
>> Is it possible to change:
>> Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project.
>> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992,  
>> 1993, 1994
>>         The Regents of the University of California. All rights  
>> reserved.
>> Over to:
>> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992,  
>> 1993, 1994
>>         The Regents of the University of California.
>>         All rights reserved.
>> If so, how is it done?
>> To have `All rights reserved.' apply to both copyright statements,  
>> it is necessary to break it down to the next line. It would also  
>> look a whole lot neater, as the last number of `1994' now aligns  
>> with the last letter of `reserved' using a monospaced font, which  
>> ends up looking kind of weird. Trust me on this one.
>> Thank you,
>> Kyrre Nygård + mir-visuals.com + snoarc.no
>
> Now why would you want to do that? That's cutting FreeBSD totally  
> out of the picture, which isn't correct since they're the copyright  
> owners of the FreeBSD project from 1992 to today.

I think the point is to reformat the "all rights reserved" statement,  
rather than remove a copyright line.



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