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IANAL and I am scared by licenses I don't recognize. I pretty much bail as soon as I see the words "all rights reserved" regardless of what comes after it. Tha

IANAL and I am scared by licenses I don't recognize. I pretty much bail as soon as I see the words "all rights reserved" regardless of what comes after it. That said, this license is extremely short and for a tool that is clearly intended to be distributed. Is this essentially a CC attribution license? If so, why not just use that? https://github.com/Selz/plyr/blob/master/license.md https://github.com/Selz/plyr/blob/master/license.md

rnijveld 12y ago
It's just a standard BSD 3-clause license, see: http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
- dangerlibrary 12y ago
  ... which he says at the bottom of the page. I'll leave the monument to my ignorance above, in case it helps someone else.
wongarsu 12y ago
Moreover, they don't really adhere to their own license: http://cdn.plyr.io/1.0.19/plyr.js http://cdn.plyr.io/1.0.19/plyr.js doesn't reproduce the copyright notice despite being a redistribution in binary (or source???) form. If you just copy&paste that file into your own project you are in violation of their license. On the upside, likely nobody cares. I doubt anybody has ever been sued over violating the BSD license.
mrsteveman1 12y ago
I've always assumed "All rights reserved" was just a redundant part of the copyright declaration (it's already copyrighted, what else can you possibly reserve without e.g. trademark or patent law etc?), and that the explicit copyright license that usually follows and grants exceptions to the copyright is all that matters. I hadn't thought about it much until now though, perhaps that assumption is wrong in some jurisdictions.
sampotts 12y ago
I'll admit, this is my first open source project and I didn't know what to do license wise. I've now changed it to the MIT license as that seemed the most appropriate? Basically we're not going to sue you if you modify or use it. Frankly I'm happy it's been so well received. Thanks for the feedback!

rnijveld 12y ago

It's just a standard BSD 3-clause license, see: http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause

dangerlibrary 12y ago
... which he says at the bottom of the page. I'll leave the monument to my ignorance above, in case it helps someone else.

wongarsu 12y ago

Moreover, they don't really adhere to their own license: http://cdn.plyr.io/1.0.19/plyr.js http://cdn.plyr.io/1.0.19/plyr.js doesn't reproduce the copyright notice despite being a redistribution in binary (or source???) form. If you just copy&paste that file into your own project you are in violation of their license. On the upside, likely nobody cares. I doubt anybody has ever been sued over violating the BSD license.

mrsteveman1 12y ago

I've always assumed "All rights reserved" was just a redundant part of the copyright declaration (it's already copyrighted, what else can you possibly reserve without e.g. trademark or patent law etc?), and that the explicit copyright license that usually follows and grants exceptions to the copyright is all that matters. I hadn't thought about it much until now though, perhaps that assumption is wrong in some jurisdictions.

sampotts 12y ago

I'll admit, this is my first open source project and I didn't know what to do license wise. I've now changed it to the MIT license as that seemed the most appropriate? Basically we're not going to sue you if you modify or use it. Frankly I'm happy it's been so well received. Thanks for the feedback!