Re: meaning license statement
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 09:19:29AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Gerber van der Graaf wrote:
>
> > I am building debian packages of FreeFOAM and come across the following
> > license statement in
> > ./applications/utilities/postProcessing/graphics/ensightFoamReader/global_extern.h:
> > * Copyright 1998 Computational Engineering International, Inc.
> > * All Rights Reserved.
>
> This is the important bit, All Rights Reserved generally means
> non-free, non-distributable. Please inform upstream and get them to
> replace it.
You're mixing author rights and licence. The above is not unfree, it's
just the legal bottom line.
Here is a content chunk of /usr/share/doc/gcc/copyright:
|
| Copyright (c) 1999 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
| All rights reserved.
As for the rest of the mail, I have no idea about this license
statement.
Bye, Mt.
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