Re: Manual licensing, again

> I worked on the licensing and re-licensing of Csound personally.
> Not sure what you are saying, but with Barry Vercoe by my side,
> we arranged with the Lawyers at MIT to change the license for Csound
> to LGPL and the manual license to GFDL.
>
> Dr. B.
>
>
> Dr. Richard Boulanger  -  rboulanger@...
>
>
>
> On May 19, 2009, at 10:23 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>
>> 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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