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

[Richard Fontana]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM Balázs Hámorszky <balihb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I’m Balázs Hamorszky, the author of a new license called the
> P-EADCA Universal Waiver License (PUWL v1.0)
>
> 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 think the rationale you give for the license is fine, but I don't
see the point of the license itself. As far as I can tell you are just
combining a bunch of existing highly permissive permission grants, so
OSI would have to end up examining each of them other than the
Unlicense which has already been approved. As McCoy noted, the
reception of CC0 (over 10 years ago to be sure) was hostile because of
its patent language. I believe WTFPL was submitted but not approved at
one time, I believe essentially for reasons of primness.

Richard