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It pleases me no end that there are 2,013 2013's.
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It displeases me to no end that it starts with a copyright notice, but it turns out to be OSS.
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open‐source code still is under copyright; the copyright holder just makes it available under an open license. the copyright holder can even sell non‐free licenses for open‐source software, for example if an open‐source license requires attribution and someone is ready to pay to use the software under a license that doesn’t require attribution
what wouldn’t be appropriate to put here is “all rights reserved”, since they aren’t. for example, the rights to redistribution and modification are explicitly granted by the GPL, so they are not reserved
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I'll admit that "hey, that could be actually 2 013 2013s", and there were. (There were far more than two point oh one three of them.)
(Sorry.)
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The copyright notice is correct. You can't license something under GNU GPL unless you hold the copyright - if there was no copyright it would be public domain and the license would be irrelevant. The instructions on using the GPL at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html explicitly say to include a copyright notice. "All rights reserved" isn't correct, or at least is confusing, as they're clearly not reserving "all" rights.
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While waiting for someone to moderate @no, I'll just observe that all OSS and also all Free Software are of necessity copyright. And so yes, copyleft relies on copyright to function correctly.
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If that was autogenerated, maybe a format specifier went wrong, e. g., instead of "placeholder for number; year", there was "placeholder for how many repeated values; year"...