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

[Luis Villa]

Thanks for your patience, Jim.

I note that the most recent JCP minutes say UPL will be apparently
preferred for Open Source-licensed Reference Implementations:
https://java.net/downloads/jsr358/Meeting%20Materials/JSR-358-IPWG-Minutes-Sept-12-2014.html

Is that this version of UPL then? :) It's important to have an anchor
tenant, so to speak, and this would appear to address/resolve that concern.

Thanks-
Luis

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Jim Wright <jim.wright at oracle.com> wrote:

> Ok, last round with any luck, here is a revision to the UPL which:
>
>  (i) at the suggestion of a few people accommodates 8.3 filenames for the
> larger works file (note that I did not make it substitutable both because
> this is error prone and because I want automated systems to find these
> easily without needing to parse the license file for the name)
>  (ii) per Engel's questions, clearly sets the scope of the copyright
> license to the Software only, thereby ensuring that the license could not
> be read to permit the use of other, non-contributed material from the
> licensors, and
>  (iii) per Josh Berkus, adds a version number 1.0.
>
> The revisions is as follows (and redline PDF attached):
>
> The Universal Permissive License (UPL), Version 1.0
>
>
> Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>
>
> Subject to the condition set forth below, permission is hereby granted,
> free of charge and under any and all copyright rights in this software,
> associated documentation and/or data (collectively the "Software") and any
> and all patent rights owned or freely licensable by each licensor
> hereunder, whether an original author or another licensor, to any person
> obtaining a copy of the Software, to deal in both
>
> (a) the Software, and
>
> (b) any piece of software and/or hardware listed in the lrgrwrks.txt file
> if one is included with the Software (each a “Larger Work” to which the
> Software is contributed by such licensors),
> without restriction, including without limitation the rights to make, use,
> sell, offer for sale, import, export, have made, have sold, copy, create
> derivative works of (provided that this does not license additional patent
> claims beyond those covering the unmodified Software and Larger Works),
> display, perform, distribute, and sublicense the Software and the Larger
> Work(s) on either these or other terms.
>
> This license is subject to the following condition:
>
> The above copyright notice and either this complete permission notice or
> at a minimum a reference to the UPL shall be included in all copies or
> substantial portions of the Software.
>
> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
> IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
> AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS 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 SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
> DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
>
>
>
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