[License-review] Request for Approval of Universal Permissive License (UPL)

Allison Randal allison at opensource.org
Tue Feb 17 22:19:59 UTC 2015


On 02/12/2015 11:47 AM, Henrik Ingo wrote:
>
> Although the beginning of the license is now quite clear, and arguably
> the license as a whole is more clear than not, it seems to me this
> particular sentence still says I'm free to license the Larger Work
> (e.g. all of Java) under the UPL or any other terms of my choosing.

That's because you are. Permissive licenses (MIT, BSD, and others) 
permit you to redistribute the work under any terms, even a proprietary 
license, as long as you meet the explicit requirements of the license. 
Those requirements can be as simple as "retain the copyright notice".

Allison



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