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Jennifer B Machovec wrote:
> I thought it might be helpful to give some background on the "all rights
> reserved" phrase. The requirement for this phrase originated in the
> Buenos Aires Convention of 1910, which provided that a copyright owner had
> to make an express statement of the reservation of property rights in
> order to have copyright protection in all countries that were party to the
> convention. Because of subsequent changes in copyright law that I won't
> bore you with (but can if you really want....), this phrase essentially
> became useless for works first published in the United States and most
> other North and South American countries. However, there are still a few
> countries in which this is a meaningful declaration, and for that reason
> IBM (and many other copyright owners, including ASF in its standard
> notice) retain this phrase to avoid such an exposure. It does not in any
> way change or restrict license grants that are made by the copyright
> owner.
>
> As far as the copyright notice in the individual files, while I'm not
> certain that there is a problem regarding the Apache Derby reference, it
> would be consistent with the ASL v.2.0 instructions to add a notice
> stating: "Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
> you may not use this file except in compliance with the License." That
> should remove any ambiguity.
roy, does that answer your concerns or not?
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