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MIT License can't have "all rights reserved." #2129

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According to README.md, PowerShell is licensed under the MIT License. However, when I open LICENSE.txt I see the following:

PowerShell 6.0

Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation

All rights reserved.

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to . . .

How can all rights be reserved while granting all the rights under the MIT License? To reserve all rights while granting all the rights under the MIT license is completely contradictory. Of course, Microsoft can retain the copyright but it can't reserve all rights and license under MIT.

Credit: I did not discover this issue. It was discussed on episode 480 of the Windows Weekly podcast. The license-specific discussion (including this issue) is between about 11m:45s and about 13m:05s.

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