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

[cowan at ccil.org]

Allison Randal scripsit:

> 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".

Yes, but this purports to grant rights not only to "the Software" but
also to "Larger Works" written by someone else.  Clearly that language
is not effective (you can't grant away someone else's rights), but it's
confusing and should be stricken.

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of
his own
skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and
among
other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.  --Edsger Dijkstra