You can’t just ignore the second part of that sentence which gives the right to make commits to all citizens of earth. That would include the person who wrote the last commit.
I’m pretty sure it means exactly what it says, but you lot are all misreading it.
I interpret it as “all rights, except the right to commit, are reserved” (which doesn’t mean you surrender the right to commit, but rather that it’s the only right you aren’t depriving everyone else of)
All rights reserved by…, except the right to commit to this repository.
Being a legal license it requires much more rigorous and clear statement
You can’t just ignore the second part of that sentence which gives the right to make commits to all citizens of earth. That would include the person who wrote the last commit.
Yeah, that should read “all other citizens of earth”.
I’m pretty sure it means exactly what it says, but you lot are all misreading it.
I interpret it as “all rights, except the right to commit, are reserved” (which doesn’t mean you surrender the right to commit, but rather that it’s the only right you aren’t depriving everyone else of)