Re: license-buffer-under-gpl.el

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From: Russ Allbery
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 00:00

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Jamie Lokier <spamfilter.mar2000@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> writes:

> It's my potentially wrong understanding that "all rights reserved"
> doesn't make sense when you're granting the recipient rights, as you do
> by licensing under the GPL.

> I could be wrong, but am I?

My previous understanding is that "All rights reserved" is magic legal
language to invoke one's protections under the international copyright
treaty that predated Berne.  As such, it's probably no longer needed, but
at worst it's just meaningless.

Given the huge number of existing licenses which use that phrase and then
grant rights, many of which have been reviewed by lawyers, I'm pretty sure
that the potential problem you describe above isn't one in practice.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
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Date: 2000/03/02
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