[License-discuss] [DISCUSS] PUWL v1.0 – P-EADCA Universal Waiver License

[McCoy Smith]

The problem I see with this one is it seems to be a concatenation of a 
bunch of different highly-permissive ("-0") licenses or other public 
domain dedications, without any indication of whether all, or the one 
the licensee chooses, applies.

As an example of how this is a problem, CC-0 is one of the licenses 
concatenated. CC-0 has a disclaimer of patent licenses which makes it 
likely violative of OSD (in fact, IIRC, CC-0 was submitted to OSI for 
approval and rejected for that reason).

So you'd want to at a minimum clear that up.

On 10/1/2025 6:08 AM, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2025, at 12:40, Balázs Hámorszky wrote:
>> PUWL is a permissive / waiver-style license that aims to:
>>    • Waive all rights that can legally be waived, in all jurisdictions,
>>    • Disclaim all liability,
>>    • Provide a universal fallback where full waiver is not recognized,
>>    • Combine several existing public-domain-style approaches into a single text
>>
>> The full text and README (with philosophy and usage instructions) are here:
>>    → https://github.com/balihb/PUWL
>>
>> My intent is to first ask for informal feedback, before submitting it
>> to the formal license-review process.
>> I’d appreciate any comments or concerns you may have.
> Since your intent sounds very similar to CC-0, can you describe how your license differs from that one?
>
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