Scripsit Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The copyright notice says "all rights reserved" right before the > rest of the license spells out several rights which are, in fact, > not reserved.
Those several rights are probably (I haven't read the full license) granted only subject to certain conditions. It's not that farfetched to imagine that you need to reserve the rights before you can release them on conditions later. But in fact "All rights reserved" is just legal boilerplate that has no freedom-related consequences at all. It used to be (before the USA joined the Berne treaty, iirc) that this particular language was a formal necessity for asserting any copyright in the first place. Lawyers stick to it because of the odd chance that its absence might impress somebody to think, contrary to legal reality, that the work is not properly copyrighted. Many lay programmers stick to it because they don't know better. It is not harmful, so we generally ignore it. Not having read the entire license, I will not comment on its freedom in general. Go to -legal if interested. -- Henning Makholm "And here we could talk about the Plato's Cave thing for a while---the Veg-O-Matic of metaphors---it slices! it dices!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]