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"all rights reserved" doesn't conflict with openness, it's a (now obsolete) technicality meaning you opt in to getting your copyright license enforced under an international treaty.


I meant the whole block not just this phrase. "Copyright (c) 2009 by VEST Corporation. All rights reserved. Strictly Confidential!" - that conflicts with openness. Or at least with assigning rights to other people.




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