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: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
