replace uname -a informational string
Perry Hutchison
perryh at pluto.rain.com
Sat Oct 24 08:12:11 UTC 2015
[restored the OP's Cc as requested in the initial post]
Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
> As somebody else has mentioned, changing the copyright notice in
> the kernel would have a legal impact.
As the System 5 settlement of some years ago emphasized, concealing
the origin of the code is one of the very few things that may *not*
legally be done under the BSD license.
Not that this should be at all a problem: security that depends
on such obscurities is worth very little against any but the most
casual attacker.
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