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

[John Cowan]

Lawrence Rosen scripsit:

> If a distributor incorporates certain FOSS code it finds with a NOTICE that
> a specific license applies (as decided or authorized by the copyright owner)
> (e.g., the BSD or GPLv2 or CC-BY licenses), then that is the license that
> applies for all valid copies of that code received by anyone under the terms
> of that license. Is that axiom being questioned? 

If Alice's proprietary software, which she distributes in binary form only,
includes the compiled version of Bob's BSD-licensed source, does that mean
that the BSD license applies to the binary bits which correspond to that
source?

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