<div dir="auto" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">Hi.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">I've updated the draft of the Tiwaz License, version 1.0.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">These commits address feedback and points raised by McCoy Smith and Carlo Piana.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">Commit `4691d6a565f20fedf04aca7434a3a73f843e6080`:</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">* Corrected Section 2 numbering.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">* Applied specific formatting to Sections 6 (Disclaimer of Warranty) and 7 (Limitation of Liability) to visually distinguish them, in accordance with the styling of these sections in the original Mozilla Public License, Version 2.0. This includes using blockquotes (e.g., with &gt; characters) in the Markdown version, surrounding the text with asterisks in the plain text (ASCII/TXT) version, and applying distinct visual styling (such as a highlighted background) in the HTML version.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">Commit `df6f006aa151f3820b3f1f7a2e9241a40b393b5b`:</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">* Added an 'Exhibit B: Acknowledgements and Relationship to MPL 2.0' section to further clarify and explicitly state that the Tiwaz License, while derived from MPL 2.0, is not affiliated with Mozilla or its projects, and is not endorsed by them.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">Thank you for your suggestions.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">Current draft is available at&nbsp;<a data-fr-linked="true" href="https://github.com/tiwaz-license/version-1.0/tree/draft" id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" fr-original-style="" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/tiwaz-license/version-1.0/tree/draft</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""></div><div contenteditable="false" style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""><span fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""></div><hr id="previousmessagehr" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; user-select: none;" fr-original-style=""><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="">From</strong>: "McCoy Smith" &lt;mccoy@lexpan.law&gt;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="">Sent</strong>: 5/28/25 8:59 PM<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="">To</strong>: license-review@lists.opensource.org<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="">Subject</strong>: Re: [License-review] Request for OSI Approval: Tiwaz License, version 1.0 (New License)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""></span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">fwiw i did a compare of this license vs mpl-2.0 and posted it to github.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">i find this an easier way of reviewing licenses that are derived from a</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">preexisting license:</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://github.com/McCoySmith/OSI-License-Review-Compare/blob/main/Tiwaz-1.0%20compare%20MPL-2.0.odt" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" fr-original-style="" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/McCoySmith/OSI-License-Review-Compare/blob/main/Tiwaz-1.0%20compare%20MPL-2.0.odt</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">the formatting changes are generally OK although the paragraph numbering</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">in Section 2 is off. otherwise the changes are as described.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">one interesting observation. canonical MPL-2.0</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">(https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/) has the disclaimer and</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">limitation of liability highlighted in yellow. This is, I believe, to</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">address the UCC requirement (in USA law) that such</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">disclaimers/limitations be "conspicuous" which is typically done ALL</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">CAPS as colors and the like you can't do in ASCII. The SPDX and OSI</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">versions of MPL-2.0 dispense with the coloring, substituting (for SPDX)</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">a row of asterixes (and for OSI) italics. whether those count for</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">conspicuous is an interesting question, somewhat discussed by Luis Villa</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">here:</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://lu.is/2012/08/a-quick-note-on-conspicuous-text-also-known-as-all-caps" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" fr-original-style="" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://lu.is/2012/08/a-quick-note-on-conspicuous-text-also-known-as-all-caps</a>/</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">On 5/27/2025 5:17 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">&gt; On 5/26/25 15:57, Loncothad wrote:</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">&gt;&gt; This license comes as a stricter and disambiguated version of the</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">&gt;&gt; "Mozilla Public License Version 2.0". More info on that in the README</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">&gt;&gt; of the main repository of the "Tiwaz License, version 1.0" - https://</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">&gt;&gt; github.com/tiwaz-license/version-1.0/blob/draft/README.md &lt;https://</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">&gt;&gt; github.com/tiwaz-license/version-1.0/blob/draft/README.md&gt;.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">&gt;</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">&gt; Thank you for submitting this license proposal. &nbsp;Clarification: where</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">&gt; the opinions on these flaws in the MPL, and the revisions to them,</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">&gt; drafted by an attorney or with the help of one? &nbsp;It's not a</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">&gt; requirement, but lets us know how to regard the text of the changes.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">&gt;</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">&gt; You're aware that removing the Secondary License clauses can make</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">&gt; Tiwaz-license software incompatible with GPL-licensed software for</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">&gt; combined works? &nbsp;Just making sure that's intended effect.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">&gt;</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">&gt; Finally, where does the name "Tiwaz" come from? &nbsp;Note that the</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">&gt; tiwaz.fyi domain appears to be non-functional right now.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="">&gt;</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=""><br style="box-sizing: bo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