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

Allison Randal allison at opensource.org
Wed Feb 18 16:16:32 UTC 2015


On 02/17/2015 02:30 PM, cowan at ccil.org wrote:
> 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.

By my reading, that's just being a little extra explicit about the 
permissive nature of the license, i.e. you can license the Software 
under any terms, and you can link it, combine it, etc with other 
software that's licensed under any terms.

Allison



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