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Remove the deprecated "All rights reserved" phrase from all copyright notices #4752

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delgh1 opened this issue Sep 11, 2023 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #4753
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Remove the deprecated "All rights reserved" phrase from all copyright notices #4752

delgh1 opened this issue Sep 11, 2023 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #4753

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delgh1 commented Sep 11, 2023 

"The requirement to add a notice became obsolete and essentially
deprecated on August 23, 2000, as every country that was a member of
the Buenos Aires Convention (which is the only copyright treaty
requiring this notice to be used) is also a member of the Berne
Convention which requires protection be granted without any formality
of notice of copyright."

taken from debian-legal mailing list

The next reply of the email says,

> 5) Is it *advisable* to use such a terminology in a copyright statement 
> in a file licensed under the GPL?

No.

Since all copyright notices in mybb are after 2002, I suggest removing this phrase from all copyright notices.
delgh1 added a commit to delgh1/mybb that referenced this issue Sep 11, 2023
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Remove the deprecated "All rights reserved" phrase
055c31c 
The phrase "All rights reserved" is not required to be granted
protections, and it basically has no legal effects now. Using this
phrase in a file or a project licensed under GPL/LGPL is not
advisable.

See also: https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/06/msg00252.html
Resolves github issue: mybb#4752

Signed-off-by: Jing Luo <szmun.luoj@gmail.com>
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It makes little sense to touch every single file in a minor update.

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Fix #4752: Remove the deprecated "All rights reserved" phrase delgh1/mybb
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