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Hey. Sorry, it appears that I am totally wrong. I just assumed that those statements were totally conflicting, but ten seconds on Google tells me that’s not so.

At least I learned something. My apologies.

Yeah usually open source software grants some permissions but retains copyright ownership. This somewhat disallows abuse of Open Source projects, and is probably part of what makes something like the GPL enforceable in court. IANAL

No, you're reserving all rights that a copyright indicates and then granting specific exceptions (i.e. "I won't enforce my copyright against you if you follow these rules") without giving up those rights

Correct, copyright is what enables the license, free software or otherwise.