Robert Millan wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:16:14AM -0500, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: >>Quoting Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>>Package: kfreebsd-5 >>>Severity: normal >>> >>>The following lines are printed by kFreeBSD when boot starts: >>> >>>"Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. >>>Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 >>> The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved." >>> >>>I think there two problems with that: >>> >>> - "All rights reserved" would imply that the software is not licensed at >>> all, >>> which isn't true. The answers I got from #debian-devel indicate it's >>> perfectly legal to remove this message for clarification.
Not unless you are the copyright holder. >>IIRC, the phrase "All rights reserved." is required for copyrighted >>material in some Latin American countries. Without it, it isn't >>copyrighted. I.e., "All rights reserved." is the equivalent of >>"Copyright 2005 I. Author". Of course, IANAL. That is correct. > According to what I've been told in #debian-devel (which makes sense to me), > "all rights reserved" means you have no right to use this software. In the absence of some additional terms constituting a Free license: yes, the same way that "Copyright 2005 J. Random Hacker" means you have no right to use the software. > However, > the licensing terms in the source code should take preference. Correct. If additional clarification is desired at boot time, a note could be added saying that the software was available under the BSD license; alternatively, you could remove the copyright notice *from the boot messages* (since it is not the copyright notice which is governing the work). - Josh Triplett
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