[off-tracker] On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 06:49:03PM -0400, Corwin Brust wrote: > > In particular, I don't understand the meaning of the "all rights > reserved" language preceding the (BSD 3 clause plus protecting the name of the > software from use by others, is it?) license.
"All rights reserved" does sound inconsistently and confusingly, but I think it doesn't override the subsequent license; I tend to read it like "...reserved unless granted hereby", which is what the copyright law does, anyway. Still this is an issue that would be nice to get fixed. We rely on package maintainers to keep their packages in a proper state from the legal viewpoint, so they should apply the legal notices meaningfully.
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