Unfortunately, I don't speak/read Italian, but thanks to Google translate, I had a read of this thread and it seems to be resolved by the end?
As to your question more generally regarding the use of phrase "all rights reserved" - various lawyers I have spoken to (including my own view) see this as a bit of unnecessary language and a vestige of the past.
I would agree with most of the comments in the thread and the overall approach - If I saw a file like those described here where there is a copyright notice, "all rights reserved" and no indication of a license whatsoever, then the assumption is that no license is granted. A license is the way we give permission to some of the rights that copyright otherwise, by default, reserves for the author. However, when there is a project license and signs seem to indicate that "all rights reserved" was not intended to be taken literally, then checking with the author is best to clarify. (as was done here)
FWIW, where there is the same, plus the text of the license or and SPDX identifier or some other obvious license notice, then I would take "all right reserved" to really mean, "all other rights not granted in the stated license are reserved".
My own approach would be to not use "all rights reserved" at all on open-licensed content and just have the copyright notice and a file with the full license text, using SPDX identifiers, in individual files. :)
Thanks,
Jilayne
On 1/31/22 4:42 AM, Germano Massullo
wrote:
Italian identity card middleware for Linux cannot be packaged for Fedora because a developer assigned an "all rights reserved" licence to his code.
In the ticket [1] where I raised this problem, some developers of the project said that they will investigate to find out if the lines of code of the "wrong" license maybe erased.
My personal opinion is that only THE author must be the one allowed to change the licence of his own code, not another person.
Is that correct?
Best regards
[1]: https://github.com/italia/cie-middleware-linux/issues/16
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