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

Allison Randal allison at opensource.org
Tue Feb 17 22:29:27 UTC 2015


On 02/17/2015 02:19 PM, Allison Randal wrote:
> On 02/12/2015 11:47 AM, Henrik Ingo wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> That's because you are. Permissive licenses (MIT, BSD, and others)
> permit you to redistribute the work under any terms, even a proprietary
> license, as long as you meet the explicit requirements of the license.
> Those requirements can be as simple as "retain the copyright notice".

Oh, the Larger Work, no, just the Software.

Allison



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