For Approval: The Simplified BSD License
Matthew Flaschen
matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Sat Sep 8 01:28:33 UTC 2007
David Woolley wrote:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>>
>>>> All rights reserved.
>>
>> You will find identical wording in many other OSI-approved licenses,
>
> As a non-lawyer, I could be wrong, but I suspect that people include
> this phrase because they have read that they need to do so, not because
> they understand it.
As Smørgrav said, they did need to do so, and still might in some
jursidictions. It doesn't effect OSD-compliance; the still license
grants the rights needed.
> I suspect what is actually required is a statement of the licence, then "all *other* rights reserved".
IANAL, but I think that's incorrect. It was/is required to state "all
rights reserved", then grant any license.
Matt Flaschen
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