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

[Erik Harrison]

On 1/19/07, Auke Kok <sofar at foo-projects.org> wrote:
> Erik Harrison wrote:
> > * 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*
>
> hah, w00t, I've always wanted such a source of useless knowledge. Do you need a job? I
> could use someone like you to play in my Dilbert-based sitcom series, or work with my
> managers to get them to take their stupid business plans back, or ... or ... !

I am at your disposal ;-)

>
> :D
>
> Auke
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-- 
Erik

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