Re: [PATCH] modify console_loglevel from commandline

Mirian Crzig Lennox (mirian@xensei.com)
11 Dec 1998 14:39:14 -0500

alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes:
> > As a counterexample, I'd like to point out that the various BSDs
> > contain plenty of individually copyrighted kernel code (Justin Gibbs'
> > CAM code in FreeBSD, for instance), yet they don't spam the user with
> > a lot of copyright messages on boot. They would in fact consider it
> > tacky to do so.
>
> Instead they require you paste half of them all over any advertising
> material and the manual.

It's probably due to my old-school UNIX heritage, but I consider this
several orders of magnitude less intrusive. On-screen copyright
banners for each and every installed software component just reminds
me far too much of DOS. :)

> Personally Im not too bothered by hiding the copyrights. GPL code means
> you get source, they are in dmesg etc. But I do know some people who
> took offence at the caldera one and the netwinder one. Hard decisions ...
> lets leave it for Linus ;)

Indeed we should.

-- 
Mirian Crzig Lennox                                Systems Anarchist
          "There's a New World Order coming every minute.
                      Make mine extra cheese."


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