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

[Jim Wright]

All,

After some offline discussion regarding the parenthetical clarifying that the patent license does not extend to arbitrary derivative works, which one or two folks thought might create some kind of license condition, I now offer this revision to the proposed text.  I’m trying to keep it relatively non-legalese but still precise, please let me know if anyone thinks referring to “patent rights … covering the unmodified Software or Larger Works” is at all ambiguous or could be read other than as (i) including patents which would be infringed by the unmodified Software or Larger Works without the license, and (ii) excluding any other patents which would not be so infringed from the license.

I have also moved the copyright statement from below the license title to the top so as to avoid the need to insert the copyright notice into the middle of the license if one includes the title.

 Regards,
  Jim


Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>

The Universal Permissive License (UPL), Version 1.0

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 covering the unmodified Software or Larger Works (as defined below), 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, 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:

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