jcrist
commented
2 months ago That's part of the standard license text (see e.g. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:BSD#New_BSD_(no_advertising,_3_clause)). I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is you should read licenses as "the author retains all rights, except the rights enumerated below". From this post here it sounds like the "All rights reserved" used to be required language to imply all unstated rights were reserved by the owner, but in modern copyright law that's just implicit so the line is kind of redundant now.
In summary:
- Yes,
msgspecis BSD 3 licensed. - That line is part of (at least some versions) of the standard BSD 3 license text. I just copy-pasted it when I created the repo years ago.
- It seems like that line is redundant in modern times, but it's also harmless.
The github sidebar says it's under BSD 3, but the LICENSE file says "All rights reserved"