Re: svn commit: r9669 - trunk/doc/book/book

On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 15:16, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> > -Copyright (c) 2000-2004 CollabNet. All rights reserved.
> > +Copyright (c) 2002-2004
> > +Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, C. Michael Pilato.
> > +All rights reserved.
>
> Why did you add "All rights reserved."? You're not reserving all
> rights, you're only reserving some.

He didn't add it; it was already there.

I think "All rights reserved" is a magic legal phrase dating back to
before the Berne convention, and is no longer important, but if we're
going to stop using it we should stop using it globally, not locally.

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Received on Mon May 10 22:37:20 2004