Remove "All Rights Reserved" in copyright notices

dcommander · dcommander · commit 52ff28e3b800 · 2026-02-18T10:00:52.000-05:00
- "All Rights Reserved" is no longer necessary, since all Buenos Aires
  Convention signatories signed onto the Berne Convention in 2000.

- The phrase is confusing with respect to open source software, since
  all rights are not in fact reserved.

- The phrase is even more confusing when a piece of source code has
  multiple authors, because in that case, no one person owns the
  copyright.  (Thus, no one person can reserve all of the rights.)

- The Modified (3-clause) BSD License never contained the phrase "All
  Rights Reserved" (although earlier BSD licenses did), so the addition
  of the phrase to our license could be incorrectly interpreted as a
  license variation.
diff --git a/include/md5.h b/include/md5.h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
  * Modifications:
- * Copyright (C)2018 D. R. Commander.  All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright (C) 2018 D. R. Commander
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
diff --git a/util/md5.c b/util/md5.c
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
  * will fill a supplied 16-byte array with the digest.
  * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  * Modifications:
- * Copyright (C)2018, D. R. Commander.  All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright (C) 2018 D. R. Commander
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
diff --git a/util/md5hl.c b/util/md5hl.c
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  * this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return.   Poul-Henning Kamp
  * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  * Modifications:
- * Copyright (C)2016, 2018-2019 D. R. Commander.  All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright (C) 2016, 2018-2019 D. R. Commander
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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`@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@`
`1`	`1`	`/*`
`2`	`2`	`* Modifications:`
`3`		`- * Copyright (C)2018 D. R. Commander. All Rights Reserved.`
	`3`	`+ * Copyright (C) 2018 D. R. Commander`
`4`	`4`	`*`
`5`	`5`	`* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without`
`6`	`6`	`* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:`
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`@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@`
`15`	`15`	`* will fill a supplied 16-byte array with the digest.`
`16`	`16`	`* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------`
`17`	`17`	`* Modifications:`
`18`		`- * Copyright (C)2018, D. R. Commander. All Rights Reserved.`
	`18`	`+ * Copyright (C) 2018 D. R. Commander`
`19`	`19`	`*`
`20`	`20`	`* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without`
`21`	`21`	`* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:`
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`@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@`
`6`	`6`	`* this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return. Poul-Henning Kamp`
`7`	`7`	`* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------`
`8`	`8`	`* Modifications:`
`9`		`- * Copyright (C)2016, 2018-2019 D. R. Commander. All Rights Reserved.`
	`9`	`+ * Copyright (C) 2016, 2018-2019 D. R. Commander`
`10`	`10`	`*`
`11`	`11`	`* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without`
`12`	`12`	`* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:`