Erik Harrison wrote: > * God, do you actually care? Alright then. "All Rights Reserved" is an > artifact of the Buenos Aires Copyright Convention of 1910. It means > you claim the copyright. Which of course you HAVE to do before you can > then LICENSE the rights, for example under the LGPL, so in that sense > "All Rights Reserved" would be -required- for an LGPL work that was > created in any country under the Buenos Aires Copyright Convention. > Except, there are no countries under the Convention anymore. So it's > pretty much a waste of a few bytes, and should be instead replaced > with "Copyright (c) Author Name" (as per the Universal Copyright > Convention). Even that is unnecessary if your country is under Berne > Copyright Convention which says -everything- is copyrighted unless you > explicitly divest those rights. Which you wouldn't want to do, in this > case, because that would put the application under public domain, not > the [L]GPL. *Whew*
hah, w00t, I've always wanted such a source of useless knowledge. Do you need a job? I could use someone like you to play in my Dilbert-based sitcom series, or work with my managers to get them to take their stupid business plans back, or ... or ... ! :D Auke _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
