On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 11:54 PM, John Cowan <co...@mercury.ccil.org> wrote: > 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.
This is *exactly* what I thought but I wanted the confirmation from other people on this list. Thanks! -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
