| Re: Openvirtuozzo kernel patch license questions [message #59 is a reply to message #42] |
Sat, 10 September 2005 19:57   |
rpatrick
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Registered: September 2005
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I agree that stating "All Rights Reserved" is allowable as long as there's a reference to the GPL. The GPL allows the end-user to redistribute and modify.
License & Copyright are two different things.
Reserving all rights and then allowing the end-user to use the software under the terms of the GPL license is commonly done if you review a lot of source code (as referenced above in the Linux kernel). Search around, there are many "All Rights Reserved" in the copyright notices of free, GPL-licensed, software.
From gnu.org:
"most free software is not in the public domain; it is copyrighted, and the copyright holders have legally given permission for everyone to use it in freedom, using a free software license."
"Part of releasing a program under the GPL is writing a copyright notice in your own name (assuming you are the copyright holder). The GPL requires all copies to carry an appropriate copyright notice."
The how-to is here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html
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