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MIT License can't have "all rights reserved." #2129
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Not sure that applies IANAL but:
http://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/2121/mit-license-and-all-rights-reserved
Suggests it's entirely correct to do that.
A copy of
LICENSE.TXTis at
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/LICENSE.txtFWIW, I agree w/ @dworzanski ; I've been involved in license discussions with other projects, as well as discussions about writing licenses....
@dworzanski : as an aside, you probably should run a spell checker against your post in http://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/2121/mit-license-and-all-rights-reserved .
(Yes, I'm a bit biased, pretty much all of my contributions to the PowerShell repository are fixing numerous spelling mistakes. The reason to fix spelling mistakes is to make arguments and code easier to read, by decreasing distraction and ambiguity. Such mistakes also decrease from the perceived professionalism of a work and thus decrease the weight of its argument.)IANAL, so I can't make any kind of statement about the content of the thread, but I do wanna let you know we're looking into it internally.
Reacted by Josh Soref, Zach Pallin and Oisin GrehanWanted to loop back and let you guys know that, after consulting with our lawyers, we won't be changing the language. The basic gist is that we want to reserve any and all rights not granted by MIT. There's also some other precedent out there for "All rights reserved" being used in MIT.
@dworzanski: If this is a dealbreaker for you for one reason or another, please let me know here (or we can follow up privately if you like).
Joey Aiello (@joeyaiello) : fwiw, I don't think that WebRTC calls its license "MIT" or "BSD". I /think/ the license itself is basically BSD w/ the reservation you're using, but in my quick search, MIT doesn't appear anywhere relating to the license. And where it does mention "BSD", it says "like most BSD licenses" instead of saying "this is under the BSD license".
https://webrtc.org/faq/#what-does-this-license-let-me-do
Like most BSD licenses, this license allows you to use the WebRTC code with a minimum of restrictions on your use. You can use the code in proprietary software as well as open source software.
Note: These comments don't mean that I object to the license, I'm just wearing a very detailed oriented hat for the moment.
Gotcha. So you guys take more issue with the fact that we're calling it MIT with a slight modification of the language than the language itself? That actually makes sense to me.
I can't promise a quick turnaround, but I am going to still follow-up to see what we can do here.
Reacted by Josh Soref and JubileeYes, I believe that's a reasonable summary of our opinions.
And don't worry about speed. (Everyone w/ even a little bit of experience w/ licenses quickly learns that anything involving them is slow.)Reacted by Joey Aiello- added a commit that references this issue
on Apr 20, 2023
According to
README.md, PowerShell is licensed under the MIT License. However, when I openLICENSE.txtI see the following:How can all rights be reserved while granting all the rights under the MIT License? To reserve all rights while granting all the rights under the MIT license is completely contradictory. Of course, Microsoft can retain the copyright but it can't reserve all rights and license under MIT.
Credit: I did not discover this issue. It was discussed on episode 480 of the Windows Weekly podcast. The license-specific discussion (including this issue) is between about 11m:45s and about 13m:05s.