[PATCH xserver 2/3] dtrace: remove "All Rights Reserved"

[Gaetan Nadon]

On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 12:45 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> On 09/22/11 11:56, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> > This sentence contradicts the document license which is the "X.Org
> > preferred License" as found in the License document. This sentence
> > is internationally no longer required as of 2000.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_rights_reserved:
> >
> > "the phrase continues to hold popular currency and serve as a handy
> > convention widely used by artists, writers, and content creators to
> > prevent ambiguity and clearly spell out the warning that
> > their content cannot be copied freely".
> >
> > Only 3 documents out of 60 has this sentence.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Gaetan Nadon<memsize at videotron.ca>
> > ---
> >   doc/dtrace/Xserver-DTrace.xml |    2 +-
> >   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/doc/dtrace/Xserver-DTrace.xml b/doc/dtrace/Xserver-DTrace.xml
> > index bcba17d..5118777 100644
> > --- a/doc/dtrace/Xserver-DTrace.xml
> > +++ b/doc/dtrace/Xserver-DTrace.xml
> > @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
> >       </author>
> >       <releaseinfo>X.Org Xserver version&xserver.version;</releaseinfo>
> >       <copyright><year>2005</year><year>2006</year><year>2007</year><year>2010</year>
> > -<holder>Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.</holder>
> > +<holder>Oracle and/or its affiliates.</holder>
> >       </copyright>
> >       <legalnotice id="copyright">
> >         <para>
> 
> Sorry, but NAK.   Oracle's legal guidelines and the permission I have under them
> to release code require the notice in that form.   I cannot give permission to
> remove it.
> 
> While Wikipedia may be correct (though it's not actually able to give legal
> advice), that simply needs to be treated as part of the notice provided
> by the copyright holder, and not something we can standardize or replace.
> 

Excellent, thanks. So it was there intentionally. Patch withdrawn.

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