On 12/3/06, Dennis Schridde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Am Sonntag, 3. Dezember 2006 13:29 schrieb Linas Žvirblis: > Dennis Schridde wrote: > >> That's how I see our status quo: it's all just GPL. > > > > Sounds like an idea, but how do we tell that the distributors without > > adding a "disclaimer" or whatever else you call the text stating our > > interpretation? > > Just remove anything that might make people question the status of the > license. This includes disclaimers, any mentioning of other licenses and > unclear copyright notices (like "all rights reserved" stuff) in any > files, etc. Asking some lawyers some time ago resulted in the opinion that the "all rights reserved" parts belongs to the copyright which is protected by the GPL. So we can't remove those I think. (File: novideo.rpl) I think Ari explained that "all rights reserved" is just an addition to the copyright notice, stating that you don't hand over the copyright to whoever recieves the file.
For a brief discussion on what "all rights reserved" means, see [1]. The way I explained it was this: Under the copyright, all rights are reserved to the copyright holder unless expressly stated otherwise. Apparently the "all rights reserved" notation is superfluous as of 2000, according to Wikipedia. The GPL does not aim to be a waiver of copyright protection, but rather a license that grants certain privileges to the licensee that he would not have without the license (because of copyright protection). See [2]. The essential point is that "all rights reserved" and "do what you want under the terms of the GPL" are not mutually exclusive statements. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_rights_reserved [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL#Terms_and_conditions
How do other packages in Debian handle the install-sh file which comes under the X11 license as you told me a while ago? Do they all have to add a notice? Or did they not ship that file? COMPILE.html was removed, because outdated... > Adding GPL headers to all source files might also be a good idea. Ok, easy done. Allready have a script from earlier attempts that does this. --Dennis _______________________________________________ Warzone-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev
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