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

[Jim Wright]

These changes are also being surfaced at the JCP of course, and there will be only one version once finalized (which I hope this now is - seems we've hashed through all the questions here, philosophical debates about the merits of sublicensing aside), but I do not believe these tweaks will be controversial there for the obvious reasons.

 Best,
  J


On Sep 17, 2014, at 2:14 PM, Luis Villa <luis at lu.is> wrote:

> 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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