Re: Making legal issues as short as possible

2005-02-12 Thread OSS
Harald Geyer wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:20:42PM +0100, Harald Geyer wrote: "Copyright 2005 by XYZ. The copyright holder hereby grants permission to everyone, forever, to do anything with this work which would otherwise be restricted by his exclusive

Re: Making legal issues as short as possible

2005-02-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 08:44:32PM +0100, Harald Geyer wrote: I don't see anything in our message that is not specific to my original wording. Probably you can give me a pointer, why this enhanced version is still poor. Especially I don't see why a liberal and short license is a disfavor to

Re: Making legal issues as short as possible

2005-02-12 Thread Dave Hornford
Harald Geyer wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:20:42PM +0100, Harald Geyer wrote: "Copyright 2005 by XYZ. The copyright holder hereby grants permission to everyone, forever, to do anything with this work which would otherwise be restricted by his exclusive

Re: Making legal issues as short as possible

2005-02-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:20:29AM +0100, Harald Geyer wrote: Would a software with the following statement and without any further copyright or licensing notice be free? Copyright 2005 by XYZ. No rights reserved. Any issues with that? This means all rights reserved because

Re: Making legal issues as short as possible

2005-02-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:25:50AM +0100, Harald Geyer wrote: Hi! Would a software with the following statement and without any further copyright or licensing notice be free? Copyright 2005 by XYZ. No rights reserved. Any issues with that? This is definitely not a license at all. This

Re: Making legal issues as short as possible

2005-02-03 Thread Harald Geyer
Would a software with the following statement and without any further copyright or licensing notice be free? Copyright 2005 by XYZ. No rights reserved. Any issues with that? This is definitely not a license at all. Indeed it is not a license as there shouldn't exist anything that

Re: Making legal issues as short as possible

2005-02-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:25:50AM +0100, Harald Geyer wrote: Would a software with the following statement and without any further copyright or licensing notice be free? Copyright 2005 by XYZ. No rights reserved. Any issues with that? No, because it's very vague: no rights reserved isn't