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Weird.

Just checked and it's still up, hasn't even restarted.

Not sure why you think the presence of copyright makes something open-source. All open-source licenses depend on copyright, otherwise the code would be in the public domain.



"All rights reserved" is NOT open source. Open source licenses imply copyright ownership, not the other way around. This is a copyright violation.


IANAL, but I thought the phrase "All Rights Reserved" was in direct opposition to "Some rights reserved, some rights released under the following conditions" upon which Open Source licenses are based

So, yes, AIUI all creative works ever have copyright, but only Open Source grants rights to others, such as folks who might want to contribute to your project




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