Files with All rights reserved.
Hi, My pixelmed-java upload has been rejected for the following reason: o com/pixelmed/web/package.html is Copyright all rights reserved The only reference I could find about this, is the following [1]: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20t=62656#p363466 Could someone please point me to proper debian documentation explaining the issue with all rights reserved. Thanks much, [1] The all rights reserved notice is an archaism which stems from the period when it was required that an author explicitly proclaim his copyright in order for his work to be protected under copyright law. It generally has not been necessary to mark your work as copyrighted for about two decades now (in some jurisdictions, the change was made about 60 years ago); and the phrase, all rights reserved, no longer has any legal impact on copyright status. Nowadays, all creative works such as computer programs are afforded copyright protection whether the creator wants it or not. Amongst the rights reserved to the copyright holder is the right to offer a license so that others may copy, modify, and/or distribute the program. It is my understanding that QT Creator is now offered under terms of GNU's Lesser General Public License, but you can contact the copyright owners to try for alternative licensing terms if you wish. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CA+7wUsyLWK00CHcoh2gYE2-Do3SRJ7fth9_OiF-_JL=wnps...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Files with All rights reserved.
Mathieu Malaterre ma...@debian.org writes: My pixelmed-java upload has been rejected for the following reason: o com/pixelmed/web/package.html is Copyright all rights reserved The only reference I could find about this, is the following [1]: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20t=62656#p363466 Could someone please point me to proper debian documentation explaining the issue with all rights reserved. All rights reserved was a magic legal phrase given meaning by the Buenos Aires Convention, which required that phrase be present in order to get international copyright protection under that convention. The Buenos Aires Convention was an American (in the continental sense) copyright agreement that predated American adoption of Berne. All signatories to Buenos Aires are now signatories to Berne and have been since 2000 when Nicaragua signed, so apart from some technicalities that remain in effect in the broader context of Berne, it no longer has any real effect. In particular, Berne eliminates the need for appending the magic All rights reserved phrase in order to get international copyright protection. The short version is that it's a legal vestigiality, and you can usually just ignore it. There is probably some upstream somewhere that (confusingly) uses that as their (non-free) license statement, but as long as a clear license statement accompanies a copyright statement with that phrase, you can safely consider it legal boilerplate and ignore it. I suspect the problem in this case is the lack of some accompanying clear license statement. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/878v18w2fs@windlord.stanford.edu
Re: Files with All rights reserved.
It wasn't rejected. That was a prod. I'll follow up off list On Jul 15, 2013 6:00 AM, Mathieu Malaterre ma...@debian.org wrote: Hi, My pixelmed-java upload has been rejected for the following reason: o com/pixelmed/web/package.html is Copyright all rights reserved The only reference I could find about this, is the following [1]: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20t=62656#p363466 Could someone please point me to proper debian documentation explaining the issue with all rights reserved. Thanks much, [1] The all rights reserved notice is an archaism which stems from the period when it was required that an author explicitly proclaim his copyright in order for his work to be protected under copyright law. It generally has not been necessary to mark your work as copyrighted for about two decades now (in some jurisdictions, the change was made about 60 years ago); and the phrase, all rights reserved, no longer has any legal impact on copyright status. Nowadays, all creative works such as computer programs are afforded copyright protection whether the creator wants it or not. Amongst the rights reserved to the copyright holder is the right to offer a license so that others may copy, modify, and/or distribute the program. It is my understanding that QT Creator is now offered under terms of GNU's Lesser General Public License, but you can contact the copyright owners to try for alternative licensing terms if you wish. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CA+7wUsyLWK00CHcoh2gYE2-Do3SRJ7fth9_OiF-_JL=wnps...@mail.gmail.com
