[License-discuss] Advice for submitting a new license

AMOGUSForever AMOGUSForever at protonmail.com
Fri Aug 7 11:39:37 UTC 2026


Hello, i wanted to submit a license for license review called UPD
I have tried to submit the review directly to OSI license review list but got rejected by the moderator saying that i should look at
https://opensource.org/licenses/review-process.
However i do not see any issues about my review and didn't got any other advice from the moderator.
(in case you want to check its attached to the email)

Please post any possible improvement for both review text (to resubmit)
and the license text itself so that it gets ready for license review.

Thanks
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Hello i wanted to request approval of a new license that i have created myself.
Its called "The Universal Public Domain License 1.5.2" or for short "UPD 1.5.2".
This license is considered a new license, being younger than a year.

Its purpose is tho waive any rights under intellectual property law (public domain equivalent) that user may have
including rights the author might get in future after licensing it, such as patents.
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This license does not try to restrict derivatives mentioned at (OSD-3), persons or groups (OSD-6),
use cases such as commercial use (OSD-7), or other software not related to this license (OSD-9).
The §1 paragraph 2 specifically states only things licensed under this license is considered licensed.

Because i have solely created this license, no project is currently using this license.

I am the license steward itself and my social media name is “OSVidYapan” and other than my mail you can see my
Codeberg page of this license for contacting me.
https://codeberg.org/OSVidYapan/UPD/src/branch/main/UPD.txt
Since there is no clear threshold for "identity" i am not willingly to give more information about my identity unless
expressly requested in review of this license.

There is currently no other organization approving this license.

There is no SPDX or other sort of identification for other projects, but for the tag #UPD-1.5.1 is being proposed.

The closest licenses to this license are CC0 and Unlicense and no express patent grant exist.
This license fills the gap by doing so. Also i have heard some people have concerns about Unlicense not having
permissive license fallback which this license clearly has (taking the CC0 approach) without patent concerns of CC0.

Because i have created solely at my free time no legal review has been made, but i have tried my best.
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The Universal Public Domain License 1.5.2
Public domain dedication <YEAR>
NO RIGHTS RESERVED!

§1. Grants

This subjects intellectual property rights, has been completely waived, abandoned, surrendered including but not limited to;

copyrights, design rights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, trade dress, circumvention rights and any other intellectual property right that the author(s) may have or will may have in future, therefore it is public domain.
The exact same grants have been granted for this license document itself.

"Will may have in future" means the rights that the author(s) becomes after licensing the subject, including but not limited to; 
requesting patents, design rights, registering trademarks, trade dress.
This license does not try to license things that are not licensed under this license.

§2. Permissive license fallback

For jurisdictions that does not recognize public domain dedication or waiving any other sort of intellectual property right, the author(s) does give you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, non-terminable, royalty-free, irrevocable, unconditional license, for any purpose, including but not limited to; 
commercial use, sub-license, modify, make, derive, redistribute and transfer.
These are granted under any intellectual property law defined in §1 that rights holder(s) may have or will may have in future.

§3. Disclaimers of rejections

a) THE SUBJECT DOES NOT COME WITH ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND.
b) BOTH CREATOR OF THE SUBJECT AND THE LICENSE, SHOULD NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM OR DAMAGES YOU MAKE UNDER PERMITTED LAW.


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