> Message: 7 > Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:03:42 -0400 > From: "Kevin Dean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [gNewSense-users] Update required for bug 00106 > To: "Chris Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: gNewSense Users <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > The term "all rights reserved" is kind of pointless to say, the > copyright holder, by default, reserves all rights. > > That fact that the copyright holder has those rights, and retains > then, does NOT limit their ability to license software. So ignore the > words "All rights reserved" when you see them and proceed to read the > license. If there isn't one, it's non-free.
Yes, this is true. > In THIS case, the copyright holders make the license very clear > (though it's not all licensed under a single license) It says "This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by Kenneth Almquist. Please refer to /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD for details." See, I don't find this clear. I GUESS they are referring to the code they are distributing but it also reads like "Our code is All Rights Reserved and came from a BSD license. Please see the BSD license for details on how the original code was licensed." It isn't clear that when they tell you to look at BSD for details which code they are asking us to see details about. True, I would bet they are talking about their code, not the code from which their code was derived. But, I don't find the wording clear so I raised a bug. Perhaps I was being overly cautious. Sorry about that. I will assume they point us to the BSD license in reference to their code rather than the original code. I will close the bug unless anyone else says otherwise. Peter. _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
