No rights reserved

[John Cowan]

David Croft scripsit:

> > But you can do the next best thing. Use the BSD, MIT or similar license. And
> > if even those are too wordy, then something on the order of "All persons are
> > permitted to use, copy, modify and distribute this work without restriction"
> > should be brief enough.
>
>
> That's not bad but I worry that it might not grant some rights still
> held exclusively by the copyright holder .

If you add "publicly perform or display" then there are no rights left.
Copy, distribute, make derivative works, publicly display, publicly perform
is IT.  The copyright holder has no other rights.

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John Cowan                                   cowan at ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
	--Douglas Hofstadter