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

Henrik Ingo henrik.ingo at avoinelama.fi
Tue Feb 17 20:51:38 UTC 2015


Yes, taking the license as a whole, that's the only logical
conclusion, but since you asked, my feedback is that that single
sentence is still a bit disturbing to me.

henrik

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Jim Wright <jim.wright at oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi Henrik, the trick here is the scope of the copyright license, which is declared above to be the Software, so you do not get copyright rights to do anything with the Larger Works here, only patent rights.
>
>  Best,
>   Jim
>
>
>> On Feb 12, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Henrik Ingo <henrik.ingo at avoinelama.fi> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jim
>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Jim Wright <jim.wright at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Although the beginning of the license is now quite clear, and arguably
>> the license as a whole is more clear than not, it seems to me this
>> particular sentence still says I'm free to license the Larger Work
>> (e.g. all of Java) under the UPL or any other terms of my choosing.
>>
>> henrik
>>
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