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Just on that last thing in particular: another example of a software license that has an 'all rights reserved' copyright statement and requires distribution of both the copyright statement and the license would be the BSD license.

An example of another software license that explicitly separates copyright and licensing when describing itself would be the GPL, in either v2 or v3 form.

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https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause

https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause

That would contradict the license text.

The original 4-clause license does.

Fair enough. The original 4-clause license is also in the hall-of-fame of bad licenses. I believe you can also find bad legal code in a lot of the NC licenses, WTFPL, and the Hypocratic/ethical licenses in the same hall-of-fame. I wouldn't use any of those as examplars.

If it makes you feel better, I found a link written by an actual JD:

https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/the-term-all-rights-reser...

Remind me of why we're still having this discussion. Unless you can post a link supporting your assertion, I think I've provided ample evidence at this point.

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