Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] kvm/powerpc: Add freescale pci controller's support

["M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>]

In message: <20090217.090852.-292225365.imp@bsdimp.com>
            "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
: In message: <f43fc5580902170709n3ba3f5f6o71a46769d1449c00@mail.gmail.com>
:             Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com> writes:
: : >  + * Copyright (C) 2009 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. All rights reserved.
: : 
: : "All rights reserved" conflicts with GPL.
: 
: "All rights reserved" is a phrase used to invoke one's copyright in
: Latin America prior to the some of the more recent rounds of IP
: treaties.

Specifically, this was the Buenos Aires Convention from 1910.

: It isn't needed any more, but it definitely does not conflict with the
: GPL.  The author reserves all rights, and then grants you from those
: rights the rights to distribute with the GPL.  It never has conflicted
: with the GPL.  Ever.

There's one web page[1] that suggests that this might be useful to
preserve moral rights in some countries.  Moral rights are the right
to take one's name off something that someone else has changed
contrary to your wishes.  I don't know the extent that this matter
these days.

Warner

[1] http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html