For Approval: The Simplified BSD License

[John Cowan]

David Woolley scripsit:

> Maybe I don't understand this phrase (IANAL), 

"All rights reserved" has no legal meaning, and is included in many
copyright notices (including those printed in books) under the
influence of obsolete copyright treaties.

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A poetical purist named Cowan           [that's me: cowan at ccil.org]
Once put the rest of us dowan.          [on xml-dev]
    "Your verse would be sweeter        http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
    If it only had metre
And rhymes that didn't force me to frowan."     [overpacked line!] --Michael Kay