[Users] Re: Openvirtuozzo kernel patch license questions

[rpatrick]

I agree that stating "All Rights Reserved" is allowable as long as there's a reference to the GPL.  The GPL allows the end-user to redistribute and modify.

License & Copyright are two different things.

Reserving all rights and then allowing the end-user to use the software under the terms of the GPL license is commonly done if you review a lot of source code (as referenced above in the Linux kernel).  Search around, there are may "All Rights Reserved" in the copyright notices of free, GPL-licensed, software.

>From gnu.org:

"most free software is not in the public domain; it is copyrighted, and the copyright holders have legally given permission for everyone to use it in freedom, using a free software license."

"Part of releasing a program under the GPL is writing a copyright notice in your own name (assuming you are the copyright holder). The GPL requires all copies to carry an appropriate copyright notice."

The how-to is here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html