[License-review] Submission for review of Mulan Public License,Version 2

Pamela Chestek pamela at chesteklegal.com
Wed Jan 22 17:02:00 UTC 2025


On 1/22/2025 7:57 AM, McCoy Smith wrote:
> If new licenses ought to include the full panoply of copyright rights, 
> and are to conform to international standards, shouldn't they instead 
> use the full Berne formulation of copyright rights rather than the US 
> formulation? In many cases they are articulated the same, or very 
> similarly, but in others there are distinct differences.

I think there's a difference between what is the better practice and 
what would be acceptable to be approved as an open source license. There 
are many approved licenses that enumerate US rights only.

Pam (in my personal capacity)

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