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

[Bruce Perens]

This is in the right direction, although filtration by a legal professional
would still be necessary before release. As has already been brought up,
you have considered moral rights, copyright, but not really patent rights.
This leaves the recipient having to defend their use rather indirectly
through the estoppel doctrine if there is a patent lawsuit by one of the
license or public domain grantors. You might look at text in other licenses
that grant patent rights that are necessarily infringed to run the program.
An affirmative grant would be a significant difference from cc0.

Bruce Perens K6BP

On Mon, Oct 6, 2025, 01:05 Balázs Hámorszky <balihb at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know this is still crayon material, but plz have a look:
>
> https://github.com/balihb/PUWL/blob/main/LICENSE.v2draft01
>
> On Sat, Oct 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM Balázs Hámorszky <balihb at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > well, this is what I have for version 2. please spit on it:
> >
> > The author of this work dedicates all original material to the public
> > domain wherever legally possible.
> > If such dedication is not recognized or valid under applicable law,
> > the author instead grants everyone, everywhere, a free, perpetual,
> > non-exclusive, irrevocable license to use, copy, modify, distribute,
> > or otherwise do anything with the material for any purpose, without
> > restriction.
> >
> > In jurisdictions where attribution or other moral rights cannot be
> > fully waived, the author does not require their name to be displayed
> > beyond the minimal extent required by law, consents to any use without
> > personal attribution wherever legally permitted, and waives any claim
> > or legal action based solely on the absence of attribution, to the
> > fullest extent allowed by applicable law.
> >
> > Use at your own risk. The author has no liability for any consequence
> > of using, misusing, or modifying this work.
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM Johnny A. Solbu <johnny at solbu.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thursday 02 October 2025 09:42, Balázs Hámorszky wrote:
> > > > The idea behind PUWL is to provide the broadest possible "Universal
> Waiver"
> > > > in every jurisdiction.
> > >
> > > Just remember that in most of Europe there is no such thing as Public
> Domain.
> > > You cannot sign away your moral rights, which are your right to be
> listed as author of what you create.
> > >
> > > In Creative Commons language, the «by» clause it mandatory.
> > > No contract can change that.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Johnny A. Solbu
> > > web site,   https://www.solbu.net
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