[perl #39217] [TODO] legal - eliminate "All Rights Reserved."

2006-05-30 Thread Will Coleda via RT
This is done, as of r12825. - All TPF copyrights are now marked as: Copyright (C) , The Perl Foundation. - All YAS copyrights and Leo copyrights are now listed as TPF. There are still non TPF copyrights in the repository, and many of these are still marked as 'All Rights Reserved'; I think a

Re: [perl #39217] [TODO] legal - eliminate "All Rights Reserved."

2006-05-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 01:57:40PM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: > >>Copyright notices should have the form: > >> > >> Copyright , The Perl Foundation. > > Whoops, typo, that's: > >Copyright (C) , The Perl Foundation. Are you sure? As I understand things, the symbol (C), that is the lette

Re: [perl #39217] [TODO] legal - eliminate "All Rights Reserved."

2006-05-26 Thread Allison Randal
(Randal L. Schwartz) via RT wrote: According to Brad Templeton's copyright FAQ, it really doesn't mean anything anyway. If I recall, It was needed in a few south american countries, all of whom have become Berne-convention parties now, so it really means nothing. It never meant "rights" in a l

Re: [perl #39217] [TODO] legal - eliminate "All Rights Reserved."

2006-05-26 Thread Allison Randal
Paul Johnson wrote: I wouldn't have said anything, but your correction seems to indicate that the (C) is important. Is my information outdated? It wasn't a correction based on legal requirements, it was a correction based on "this is what we talked about earlier and decided to standardize t

Re: [perl #39217] [TODO] legal - eliminate "All Rights Reserved."

2006-05-26 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Allison" == Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Allison> The fundamental legal point is that we're not reserving all rights, Allison> because we're distributing the code under an open source Allison> license. Many open source developers include "All Rights Reserved." Allison> in a ca

Re: [perl #39217] [TODO] legal - eliminate "All Rights Reserved."

2006-05-26 Thread Allison Randal
The fundamental legal point is that we're not reserving all rights, because we're distributing the code under an open source license. Many open source developers include "All Rights Reserved." in a cargo-cult fashion, without understanding what it means. Will Coleda via RT wrote: How does thi

Re: [perl #39217] [TODO] legal - eliminate "All Rights Reserved."

2006-05-26 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On May 26, 2006, at 20:25, Will Coleda wrote: and ./runtime/parrot/include/DWIM.pir:305:Copyright (c) 2003, Leopold Toetsch. All Rights Reserved. just rewrite these (m/Toetsch/) to any needed format. Thanks, leo

Re: [perl #39217] [TODO] legal - eliminate "All Rights Reserved."

2006-05-26 Thread Will Coleda
How does this interact with files like: ./lib/Pod/Simple/HTML.pm:429:Copyright (c) 2002 Sean M. Burke. All rights reserved. and ./src/bignum.c:2:Copyright (c) 2001-2006 Yet Another Society. All rights reserved. and ./runtime/parrot/include/DWIM.pir:305:Copyright (c) 2003, Leopold To

[perl #39217] [TODO] legal - eliminate "All Rights Reserved."

2006-05-26 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Allison Randal # Please include the string: [perl #39217] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=39217 > Remove the phrase "All Rights Reserved." from every copyright line in every file in