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Re: Bug#333603: ITP: acpica-unix -- an ASL compiler/decompiler



Henning Makholm writes:
> But in fact "All rights reserved" is just legal boilerplate that has no
> freedom-related consequences at all. It used to be (before the USA joined
> the Berne treaty, iirc) that this particular language was a formal
> necessity for asserting any copyright in the first place.

It was never even required in the US.  There once was some sort of a
pan-American copyright treaty and the phrase was required by some member
countries.
-- 
John Hasler



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