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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