On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:32 PM, ZhiQiang Fan <[email protected]> wrote:
> @Stefano Maffulli > > Yes, the main point is the conflict of reserved all, and abandon some > (actually most). > > According to the order the last will take effect IIUC Monty Taylor's > explaination. > > I'm thinking that we should remove the "all rights reserved" words if > we're using Apache license. > Misleading is not a good thing, especially when it is for legal issue. > While misleading at first glance, lets just better document the question in one place (the wiki?) instead of investing time in changing this everywhere in every repository. > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Stefano Maffulli <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Sat, 2015-01-17 at 16:07 -0500, Monty Taylor wrote: >> > It's actually a set of words that is no longer necessary as of the year >> > 2000. It's not communicating anything about a granted license, which is >> > what the Apache License does - it's actually just asserting that the >> > original copyright holder asserts that they have not waived any of their >> > rights as a copyright holder. However, the Berne convention grants this >> > automatically without a positive assertion. >> >> I think ZhiQiang Fan's question is about the sentence "all rights >> reserved" followed by the implicit "some rights not reserved" granted by >> the Apache license, rather than the meaning of 'all rights reserved' >> alone. You're right that such sentence by itself is meaningless but in >> the context of the Apache license I think it's confusing at best, >> probably wrong. >> >> I don't remember seeing this case discussed on legal-discuss and I'm >> quite sure that the right way to apply the Apache license to source code >> is *not* by saying "(C) `date +%Y` Foo Corp, All Rights Reserved" >> followed by Apache license (see appendix on >> http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) >> >> Maybe a passage on legal-discuss would be better? >> >> /stef >> >> >> __________________________________________________________________________ >> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) >> Unsubscribe: >> [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >
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