Re: [openstack-dev] [all] All rights reserved V.S. Apache license

2015-01-22 Thread Thierry Carrez
Joe Gordon wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:32 PM, ZhiQiang Fan aji.zq...@gmail.com mailto:aji.zq...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] All rights reserved V.S. Apache license

2015-01-21 Thread Joe Gordon
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:32 PM, ZhiQiang Fan aji.zq...@gmail.com 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

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] All rights reserved V.S. Apache license

2015-01-18 Thread ZhiQiang Fan
@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

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] All rights reserved V.S. Apache license

2015-01-18 Thread Stefano Maffulli
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

[openstack-dev] [all] All rights reserved V.S. Apache license

2015-01-17 Thread ZhiQiang Fan
Hi, developers I have observed that some source code files in our projects have been announced as Copyright xxx, All rights reserved, and then followed by a Apache License Is this right? any conflict? And if one company claims that it reserves all rights for some source files, those source

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] All rights reserved V.S. Apache license

2015-01-17 Thread Anne Gentle
The best guidance we have is here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/Copyright On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 2:27 AM, ZhiQiang Fan aji.zq...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, developers I have observed that some source code files in our projects have been announced as Copyright xxx, All rights

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] All rights reserved V.S. Apache license

2015-01-17 Thread Monty Taylor
On 01/17/2015 03:27 AM, ZhiQiang Fan wrote: Hi, developers I have observed that some source code files in our projects have been announced as Copyright xxx, All rights reserved, and then followed by a Apache License Is this right? any conflict? And if one company claims that it

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] All rights reserved V.S. Apache license

2015-01-17 Thread ZhiQiang Fan
Thanks for the clarification On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 5:07 AM, Monty Taylor mord...@inaugust.com wrote: On 01/17/2015 03:27 AM, ZhiQiang Fan wrote: Hi, developers I have observed that some source code files in our projects have been announced as Copyright xxx, All rights reserved, and