Comment by userbinator a day ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Enterprises_Ltd._v._Accola... is the legal precedent that says trying to do that won't work, but then again maybe Google thinks it's invincible and can do whatever it wants after it ironically defeated Oracle in a case about interoperability and copyright.
Apple famously does this with this word soup in their SMC chips, and proceeded to bankrupt a company that sold Hackintoshes and shipped it in their EFI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation
Our hard work
by these words guarded
please don't steal
(c) Apple Computer Inc
Even if they can't defend it legally, it costs them ~nothing to add the header and it could still act as a deterrent.