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    Remove 'All Rights Reserved' from the collection copyright and templates. · d4c9767f
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    The original Berkeley Software Distributions were made in the 1980's
    and 1990's. At that time, the Buenos Ares Convention of 1910 was in
    force in most of the countries in the Americas. It required an
    affirmative statement of rights reservation, typically using 'All
    Rights Reserved.' The Regents included this phrase in their copyright
    notices to invoke this treaty to ensure maximal copyright protection.
    
    In the 1990's, Latin America coutries ratifeid the Berne Convention on
    copyrights which prohibited them from requiring an affirmative
    statement to reserve the rights. When Nicaragua ratified in 2000, the
    Buenos Ares Convention of 1910 was effectively repealed. This made all
    the 'All Rights Reserved' phrases obsolete and legal deadweight most
    of the time, and certainly in the cases removed here.
    
    Since it's no longer required, and is in fact meaningless, core has
    decided to dropped it from the project's collection copyright and
    sample templates. It encourages other rights holders to do the same
    after consultation with their legal department.
    
    More see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires_Convention for
    more information.
    
    Approved by: core@ (emaste@, jhb@)
    Differential Review:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15264
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