Eitan Adler scripsit: > Does anyone know what the phrase "All rights reserved" means in the > BSD license http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause and > http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause ? > > I don't understand what value the phrase adds and it seems to > contradict the remainder of the license.
It adds no value whatsoever and has no legal meaning. It was required under the 1910 Buenos Aires copyright convention, but all members of that are now members of the Berne Convention, which forbids the lack of legal formalities to affect the establishment of a copyright. Feel free to strike it out of any license you are reusing. Furthermore, it does not override the rights explicitly granted: it merely means that rights not granted are reserved, which is already true under Berne and all national copyright laws. -- Principles. You can't say A is John Cowan <[email protected]> made of B or vice versa. All mass http://www.ccil.org/~cowan is interaction. --Richard Feynman _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
