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From: ggw@wolves.uucp (Gregory G. Woodbury)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Why a conscientious free software developer should time-date copyright
Summary: All Rights Reserved
Message-ID: <1990May6.002300.21917@wolves.uucp>
Date: 6 May 90 00:23:00 GMT
References: <973@gargoyle.uchicago.edu> <14832:May218:09:5990@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> <983@gargoyle.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: ggw@wolves.UUCP (Gregory G. Woodbury)
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In article <983@gargoyle.uchicago.edu> matt@group-w.uchicago.edu
(Matt Crawford) writes:
>
>OK, you tell me what "all rights reserved" means.  You use that phrase
>quite frequently in your code.

	Jezeuz! The phrase "all rights reserved" is explicitly required
so that the author doesn't loose rights under pan-american copyright.
Without that phrase certain south american countries will take all sorts
of liberties with the item being copyrighted.  It also helps to limit
the stuff that the government can do to the item if it is somehow
transmitted to them.

	Talk about basic confusion.
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