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

[cowan at ccil.org]

Jim Wright:

> John, the copyright terms there *do* serve a purpose, they serve to scope
> the copyright license to the Software and simply don't apply to the Larger
> Works since those are not the subject of the copyright grant.  On the
> other hand, if we removed those copyright terms completely, there would be
> no express declaration of the right, e.g., to create derivative works of
> the Software, so the enumerated copyright rights need to stay in for the
> license to serve its purpose.

Yes, I see that.  But I think it would still be less confusing to have
two clauses: one listing the patent magic words and saying "Software and
Larger Works", and the other listing the copyright magic words and
saying "Software" but not "Larger Works".

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
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