Fix this: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Christian Walther cptsalek at gmail.com
Sun May 27 10:46:24 UTC 2007


On 27/05/07, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013 at student.uu.se> wrote:
> On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 02:38:33AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> >
[...]
>
> As I understand it the phrase 'All rights reserved' was required by older
> copyright rules but is obsolete these days.
> I.e. changing the wording so that 'All rights reserved' applies to both
> copyright statements is pointless since it does not have any legal
> significance any more.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't "(C) - All rights reserved"
something entirely different from the BSD License under which FreeBSD
is licensed? This license grants it's users some rights very
explicitely. I know that I can still be a Copyright owner when I
choose to distribute a piece of work under a different license, but
can I say that all rights are reserved when I actually do something
else?


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