[License-discuss] Advice for submitting a new license

[McCoy Smith]

This license text has numerous issues, including non-ideomatic language, 
the "grant" waiving all rights to *all* intellectual property, whether 
or not it relates at all to the content to which it is attached, and a 
likely non-functional (at least in the USA) disclaimer of liability. 
There are other issues as well.

Although you say you've "tried your best" without the use of a lawyer, I 
think if you want to propose something that has any chance of being 
useable, and approvable, you'd likely need to have the help of a lawyer. 
Waivers/disclaimers of IP rights are quite complex, particularly given 
international laws in that regard, and trying to do this on your own 
isn't likely to result in something functional.

On 8/7/2026 4:39 AM, AMOGUSForever via License-discuss wrote:
> 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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