<div dir="ltr"><p>Hi AMOGUSForever,</p><p>I took a look at your draft of the <strong>Universal Public Domain License 1.5.2</strong> and made a few improvements that you might want to consider. I think they help clarify the intent of the license and avoid a few potential legal issues.</p><p>Of course, I'm <strong>not a lawyer</strong>, and <strong>this is not legal advice</strong>. These are just drafting suggestions based on my own understanding, so please review them carefully and use whatever you think is appropriate.</p><p>I've included the complete revised draft below.</p><hr><h1>The Universal Public Domain License 1.5.2</h1><p><strong>Public Domain Dedication</strong></p><p>Copyright © [year] [Creator]</p><p><strong>NO RIGHTS RESERVED!</strong></p><h2>§1. Waiver</h2><p>To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Creator irrevocably dedicates the Work to the public domain and waives all copyright and related rights, together with any patent rights owned or controlled by the Creator to the extent necessary to permit unrestricted use of the Work, worldwide.</p><p>Without limitation, this dedication and waiver includes the right to reproduce, use, copy, modify, adapt, merge, publish, distribute, perform, display, communicate, translate, sublicense, and sell the Work:</p><ul><li><p>for the maximum duration permitted by applicable law, including any future extensions;</p></li><li><p>in every present and future medium or format;</p></li><li><p>for any purpose whatsoever, including commercial purposes;</p></li><li><p>all moral rights, to the extent they may be waived or not asserted under applicable law;</p></li><li><p>all neighbouring or related rights;</p></li><li><p>all publicity, privacy, and personality rights relating to any person depicted in the Work;</p></li><li><p>all rights protecting against unfair competition relating to the Work;</p></li><li><p>all rights protecting the extraction, dissemination, use, and reuse of data contained in the Work;</p></li><li><p>all database rights and similar rights under any jurisdiction; and</p></li><li><p>all equivalent or corresponding intellectual property rights now existing or hereafter created under any applicable law or treaty.</p></li></ul><p>For the avoidance of doubt, trademark, service mark, trade name, trade dress, and other rights identifying the source of goods or services are neither waived nor licensed under this License.</p><p>The same dedication and waiver apply to this License document itself.</p><h2>§2. Permissive License Fallback</h2><p>If, under applicable law, the public domain dedication or any waiver described in Section 1 is ineffective, invalid, or unenforceable, in whole or in part, each rights holder hereby grants every recipient a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable license to exercise all rights that the rights holder has, or may hereafter acquire, in the Work under any intellectual property rights identified in Section 1, including, without limitation, the rights to reproduce, use, copy, modify, adapt, merge, publish, distribute, perform, display, communicate, translate, sublicense, and sell the Work, for any purpose, including commercial purposes.</p><h2>§3. Disclaimer</h2><p>THE WORK IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.</p><p>TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CREATOR, ANY CONTRIBUTOR, OR ANY COPYRIGHT, RELATED RIGHTS, OR PATENT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES, OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF, OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE WORK OR THE USE OF OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE WORK.</p><h2>§4. Severability</h2><p>If any provision of this License is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable under applicable law, that provision shall be reformed or enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law, and if it cannot be so reformed or enforced, it shall be severed from this License without affecting the validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions.</p><hr><p>I hope some of these changes are useful. Feel free to use, modify, or ignore any of them as you see fit. and consult with lawyer</p><p>Best,<br></p><p>Subham mahesh</p><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 at 21:20, subham mahesh <<a href="mailto:indsubham6@gmail.com">indsubham6@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Hi, I read your draft license, and I think the waiver is far too broad. As written, it could easily backfire and, in my view, isn't practical to use.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">One issue is that the license appears to waive trademark rights, which doesn't make sense. Trademark law is fundamentally different from copyright and patents. The whole purpose of a trademark is to preserve the exclusive right to use a name or mark in commerce. Most open source and source-available licenses don't waive trademark rights; instead, they simply state that the license does not grant any permission to use the licensor's trademarks.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">More broadly, the waiver language is so expansive that it could be interpreted as a general waiver of the licensor's rights, rather than a limited waiver for a specific purpose. That creates unnecessary ambiguity and could produce unintended legal consequences.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">This isn't legal advice, but I think the waiver should be narrowed substantially and should expressly exclude trademark rights rather than attempting to waive them.</span></p><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 7 Aug, 2026, 7:40\u202fpm AMOGUSForever via License-discuss, <<a href="mailto:license-discuss@lists.opensource.org" target="_blank">license-discuss@lists.opensource.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Hello, i wanted to submit a license for license review called UPD</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I have tried to submit the review directly to OSI license review list but got rejected by the moderator saying that i should look at </div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span><a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://opensource.org/licenses/review-process" target="_blank">https://opensource.org/licenses/review-process</a></span>.</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">However i do not see any issues about my review and didn't got any other advice from the moderator.</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">(in case you want to check its attached to the email)</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Please post any possible improvement for both review text (to resubmit)</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">and the license text itself so that it gets ready for license review.</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Thanks</div>_______________________________________________<br>
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