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Re: All rights reserved?



On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 10:45:10PM +0000, Alp Toker wrote:
> Is the term "All rights reserved" compatible with Open Source/Free 
> Software licensing?
> 
> If so, is it still considered bad form? I've taken up maintainership of 
> some code with headers that go:
> 
> /* Copyright (c) 2006 Joe Author. All rights reserved.
>  * <standard free license here>
>  */
> 
> Should the original authors be asked to change this, or is this a case 
> of splitting hairs?
> 
> For the sake of keeping on-topic:
> 
> alp@rover:/usr/share/doc$ grep -ri "all rights reserved" * | wc -l
> 2204

See http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/10/msg00198.html
for previous discussion (from Googling for '"all rights reserved"
debian-legal').  It's not a problem.

-- 
Glenn Maynard



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