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yourcelf / btb

Codebase that powers Between the Bars, a blogging platform for people in prison. Splitting/parsing/publishing PDFs, managing paper correspondence.
http://betweenthebars.org
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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"all rights reserved" on the site and it's design ? #24

Closed arthurlutz closed 9 years ago

arthurlutz commented 10 years ago

While translating btb I can accross the follow string : 

The %(site_name)s site, design, and content is copyrighted⏎
<nobr>&copy; %(year)s %(site.name)s</nobr>, all rights reserved.

Is the site's design not published under the same licence as the code ? If not, maybe an open licence would be more appropriate ?

yourcelf commented 10 years ago

Copyright isn't the same as a license. In fact, licenses such as GPL only work through the strong use of copyright. The "all rights reserved" means that we reserve the right to license the code as we wish -- and we've chosen AGPL. Everything that's in this repo (including CSS, images, etc) is governed by that license; you're free to use it for any purpose so long as you contribute changes back to us. We're quite grateful for the excellent work you've been doing with i18n and packaging (sorry I've been slow to merge, have been busy with other projects).

What's not covered by that license are things not in this repository -- most importantly the posts made by individual bloggers. We chose to let all of the original authors retain copyright on all of their submissions, we only require them to grant us a license to reproduce it on betweenthebars.org.