Re: Manual licensing, again

> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 03:51, Anthony Kozar
> <mailing-lists-1001@...> wrote:
>> Felipe Sateler wrote on 5/19/09 5:23 AM:
>>
>>> Hi all. There are more files with questionable licensing status :(.
>>>
>>> examples/01hpschd.sf2 seems to be for free distribution only  
>>> (which would make
>>> it incompatible with the GFDL, since no restrictions can be added).
>>>
>>> examples/22bassoon.sf2 allows free redistribution, but doesn't  
>>> mention
>>> modifications (if they are not allowed, it would conflict with the  
>>> GFDL).
>>
>> I think that these should be removed.
>>
>>> opcodes/py{init,eval,assign}.xml still have the All rights  
>>> reserved by
>>> Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu notice. Has anybody been able to contact  
>>> him?
>>
>> Once again, "All rights reserved" has no legal meaning anymore and  
>> is not
>> incompatible with any free/open license.  Please see this page for an
>> explanation:
>>
>> <http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollard/FGA/law-copyright-all-rights-re
>> served.html>
>>
>> Even if the phrase did have some legal force, it would only apply  
>> to people
>> who do not have a valid license granting them further rights.  In  
>> the world
>> of free software and open content, everyone can obtain a license  
>> granting
>> some of the rights normally "reserved" by the copyright holder.  
>> Thus "All
>> rights reserved" would at best only apply to persons whose license  
>> has been
>> revoked because they violated its provisions.
>
> Last time we discussed this, you yourself said that apparently nobody
> cleared Maurizio's permission to license the manual as GFDL...
> Anyways, if these statements are void then maybe they should be
> removed?
>
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