For Approval: The Simplified BSD License

[David Woolley]

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> 
>>> All rights reserved.
> 
> You will find identical wording in many other OSI-approved licenses,

As a non-lawyer, I could be wrong, but I suspect that people include 
this phrase because they have read that they need to do so, not because 
they understand it.  I suspect what is actually required is a statement 
of the licence, then "all *other* rights reserved".  Hopefully it would 
be read under the assumption that it was added without understanding.

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David Woolley
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