Add a note about the phrase 'All Rights Reserved' here to act as a

mini-FAQ. While volumes could be written about this, keep it breif
and clear at the expense of a few details and irrelvant pedantry.

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discretion. The author's permission must be documented in the
commit message for each patch that is committed.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Historically, the phrase 'All Rights Reserved.' was
included in all copyright notices. The BSD releases had it to
comply with the Buenos Ares Convention of 1910 in the
Americas. With the ratification of the Berne Convention in
2000, it became obsolete. As such, the FreeBSD project
recommends that new code omit the phrase and encourages
existing copyright holders to remove it. In 2018, the project
updated its templates to remove it.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Acceptable licenses</h3>
@ -109,7 +119,6 @@
<pre>
/*-
* Copyright (c) [year] [your name]
* All rights reserved.
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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<pre>
/*-
* Copyright (c) [year] [your name]
* All rights reserved.
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions