From FreeBSD bug report 54294, via Jonathan Gray and then jmc@openbsd:

-l option to ls(1) gives all permissions, not just owner and group.

bin/ls/ls.1

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: ls.1,v 1.40 2003/08/07 09:05:14 agc Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: ls.1,v 1.41 2003/08/28 19:44:09 wiz Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -276,8 +276,8 @@ linked-to file is preceded by
 .Pp
 The file mode printed under the
 .Fl l
-option consists of the
-entry type, owner permissions, and group permissions.
+option consists of the entry type, owner permissions, group
+permissions, and other permissions.
 The entry type character describes the type of file, as
 follows:
 .Pp