On 12/3/06, Ari Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
P.S. I am, of course, not a lawyer. I don't know whether the above is
a correct statement of the law anywhere in the world, but it is what I
am able to gather from the Wikipedia links I gave above. So don't
rely on anything I said. :)
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