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. -- Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

