[License-discuss] Advice for submitting a new license

[subham mahesh]

Hi, I read your draft license, and I think the waiver is far too broad. As
written, it could easily backfire and, in my view, isn't practical to use.

One issue is that the license appears to waive trademark rights, which
doesn't make sense. Trademark law is fundamentally different from copyright
and patents. The whole purpose of a trademark is to preserve the exclusive
right to use a name or mark in commerce. Most open source and
source-available licenses don't waive trademark rights; instead, they
simply state that the license does not grant any permission to use the
licensor's trademarks.

More broadly, the waiver language is so expansive that it could be
interpreted as a general waiver of the licensor's rights, rather than a
limited waiver for a specific purpose. That creates unnecessary ambiguity
and could produce unintended legal consequences.

This isn't legal advice, but I think the waiver should be narrowed
substantially and should expressly exclude trademark rights rather than
attempting to waive them.


On Fri, 7 Aug, 2026, 7:40 pm AMOGUSForever via License-discuss, <
license-discuss at lists.opensource.org> 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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