Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756492AbXIEMQu (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Sep 2007 08:16:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753995AbXIEMQm (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Sep 2007 08:16:42 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:40958 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753984AbXIEMQm (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Sep 2007 08:16:42 -0400 To: Daniel Hazelton Cc: davids@webmaster.com, "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" Subject: Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing References: <200709032020.04989.dhazelton@enter.net> <200709041313.22831.dhazelton@enter.net> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:16:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200709041313.22831.dhazelton@enter.net> (Daniel Hazelton's message of "Tue, 4 Sep 2007 13:13:22 -0400") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1352 Lines: 34 Daniel Hazelton writes: >> Actually (and I think it's the same in the USA), a copyrighted work >> has an implicit "all rights reserved". A licence is just exception. > > And? The fact remains that "All Rights Reserved" means "I am reserving all > rights I do not specifically grant or waive". Sure. That means you can't use a work without obtaining a licence first (unless you are the copyright holder and don't need (can't have) the licence). I.e., as the author, you don't have to write those "copyright xxx" and the work is still protected. > ie: If a license doesn't > state 'The licenser hereby waives the right to revoke this license at any > time' then that right hasn't been lost. Yes, it hasn't been *lost*. It just never existed :-) (with exception of those things starting 40 or so years after the original publication, I think we can safely skip this part). Obviously, the copyright holder is free to distribute the work under a different licence next time (but (s)he has to make sure it's ok with licences (s)he uses, if it's a derived work). -- Krzysztof Halasa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/