On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Hannah Schroeter wrote:

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>On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 02:25:49PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>>[...]
>
>>Bullshit.  The license retains ANY RIGHTS which are in Copyright law,
>>a body of law that PRECEDES the decleration.  That body of law is
>>pulled in the MOMENT a "Copyright (c) YYMM author" decleration is
>>made.
>
>In some legislations, especially in Europe, copyright law applies
>*automatically*, even without an explicit copyright statement/assertion.
>Just by creating something that's copyrightable.

IIRC this is true for any country which has adopted the Berne
Convention, which is currently almost every country which has any
copyright law in place.  It includes the U.S.

	Dave

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