[License-review] Request for Approval of Universal Permissive License (UPL)

[Jim Wright]

Well, of course some of the contributors will already have signed OCAs, others will be JSPA signatories, etc., anyway, but at the very least if RI development is being conducted on an external forge, presumably by a spec lead other than ourselves, we would expect everyone contributing there to be doing so under this license even if we have other or additional rights to the code through other agreements with some participants.  And since the project would be licensed by the full set of contributors under that license, yes, everyone will be able to get the code under that license even though we will obviously relicense it for distributions coming from Oracle on GPL or proprietary terms.

 Best,
  Jim


On Apr 14, 2014, at 6:13 PM, Richard Fontana <fontana at sharpeleven.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 10:43:10 -0400
> "Tzeng, Nigel H." <Nigel.Tzeng at jhuapl.edu> wrote:
> 
>> From the perspective of the organizers of the larger work the
>> advantages are clearest.  There are no CLAs to manage.  As long as
>> the provider of the reference implementation has submitted under UPL
>> and my project shows up under that LARGER_WORKS file we're all good.
>> The source code is open and there are no patent worries.
> 
> I could be completely wrong but I do not think this is the sort of use
> that Jim (who mentioned the interest in using this in reference
> implementations) was talking about. Rather I seemed to understand Jim
> to be talking about the use of this as a contributor license for some,
> but not all, contributors to a reference implementation. Not as a
> license for the reference implementation itself. (Obviously it could
> nonetheless be used in that way.)
> 
> I agree that not having to manage CLAs is an advantage in the RI
> context. 
> 
> - RF
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