Bug#335898: bogus "all rights reserved" message
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 07:51:23PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > - These lines were added to advertise BSD 4.4 and FreeBSD, but our system
> > is much different, and contains code copyrighted by a lot other
> > contributors
> > (FSF, SPI, X, etc). In this context, I think advertising UCB doesn't
> > make
> Exactly as FreeBSD (except SPI).
> [...]
> On FreeBSD, it also don't apply to the whole system. I think it applies
> to the kernel, even on FreeBSD.
Ah, right. I completely forgot their userland includes stuff from other
sources.
> Well I don't really know what we should do, but that's clearly not a
> problem nor a bug, that's why I am decreasing the severity to wishlist.
I don't mind closing then (unless someone in the debian-legal thread wants to
back up the claim that "all rights reserved" means the software is not licensed
at all).
--
Robert Millan
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