Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

[Joseph A. Nagy, Jr]

On 02/23/13 12:32, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:11:50 +0100
> Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:47:10 +0100, vermaden wrote:
>>> Why not simplify that:
>>>
>>> | Copyright (c) 1992-2013 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.
>>> | FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
>>> | (...)
>>>
>>> ... into that:
>>>
>>> | Copyright (c) 1992-2013 The FreeBSD Project.
>>> | Copyright (c) 1979-1994 The Regents of the University of California.
>>> | FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
>>> | (...)
>>
>> Because you need to exclude 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987 and 1990
>> which are missing in list of years. :-)
>
> 	There's that, also that copyright message belongs to the Regents of
> the University of California and unless I misremember one of the license
> conditions is retaining their copyright notice - altering it would probably
> be a license violation.
>

It seems the regents copyright claims end in 1994. Perhaps some 
underlying piece of code is still in FreeBSD requiring this notice?

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