[Thunar-dev] volman configure.in copyright/license

[Gauvain Pocentek]

Erik Harrison wrote:
> On 1/19/07, Gauvain Pocentek <gauvainpocentek at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi Benny,
>>
>> The configure.in file of thunar-volman says "All rights reserved." which
>> doesn't allow to redistribute it,
>>     
>
> That's actually not true at all, despite the persistent belief to the
> contrary*. I recognize the troubles of not having the license
> included, and can see why that might make downstream unhappy, however.
>   

Thanks. I'm far from being an expert concerning copyright and licenses, 
your reply and Auke's one make things a little clearer.

Gauvain

>
> * God, do you actually care? Alright then. "All Rights Reserved" is an
> artifact of the Buenos Aires Copyright Convention of 1910. It means
> you claim the copyright. Which of course you HAVE to do before you can
> then LICENSE the rights, for example under the LGPL, so in that sense
> "All Rights Reserved" would be -required- for an LGPL work that was
> created in any country under the Buenos Aires Copyright Convention.
> Except, there are no countries under the Convention anymore. So it's
> pretty much a waste of a few bytes, and should be instead replaced
> with "Copyright (c) Author Name" (as per the Universal Copyright
> Convention). Even that is unnecessary if your country is under Berne
> Copyright Convention which says -everything- is copyrighted unless you
> explicitly divest those rights. Which you wouldn't want to do, in this
> case, because that would put the application under public domain, not
> the [L]GPL. *Whew*
>
>  and the
>   
>> thunar-volman/xfce-{heading,titled-dialog}.[ch] files are licensed under
>> LGPL, but the full text of the LGPL isn't provided in the tarball. The
>> ubuntu package I've made has been rejected by our ftp-master because of
>> this.
>>
>> Would you agree to provide the LGPL full text, and maybe change the
>> configure.in license?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gauvain
>>
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