Dear Anton,
In message 20090902141733.GA32603@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru you wrote:
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 02:57:28PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote: [...]
include/elf.h | 593 --
It appears that originally elf.h is BSD-licensed. I see quite a lot of "All rights reserved" in BSD-licensed files in gcc, and glibc (though it is LGPL'ed).
There's a lot of "all right reserved" in Linux' GPL'ed code.
Indeed. But then, Linux is a much more complex project, and I don't remember that this issue has been thoroughly addressed there yet.
You addressed to the lawyer on this question? Is there any FSF advice about it? Or you're doing it just to be on a safe side?
I guess I should ask again.
Because my google-foo says that "all right reserved" is a no-op nowadays, but Google is surely not a lawyer.
My current understanding is that "all right reserved" is incompatible with GPL (when releasing something under GPL you cannot at the same time reserve _all_ rights), and also license checking tools like OSLC handle it this way.
I'll ask again, just to be sure.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk