| Title | Use Oracle's UPL, Abandon Your IP | |
| Date | Thursday May 29 2014, @12:09PM | |
| Author | LaminatorX | |
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| from the What's-yours-is-mine dept. | ||
In a blog post, Hewlett-Packard's CTO states his concerns about Oracle's newly proposed license:
"Recently, Oracle submitted the new Universal Permissive License (UPL) for approval to the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The OSI is the well-respected steward of the Open Source Definition (OSD) and reviews and approves open source licenses which conform to the OSD and do not create proliferation issues. Oracle claimed to address the non-proliferation issue by stating it viewed UPL as filling the need for a permissive, MIT-style open source license with explicit patent grants."
Among other things, he explains why he does not like it:
"At a high level, the UPL copyright and patent licenses are overly broad. They extend to current and future versions of both the UPL-licensed code as well as any software/hardware identified in a file included with the UPL-licensed code. There is no requirement that the UPL-licensed code be associated in any way with the software/hardware included in the file in order to use the license to that software/hardware. This is a very expansive license.
There is no defensive termination clause under the UPL, which would allow a licensor to terminate part or all of its license if the licensee sues the licensor for patent infringement. This means a licensee can get very broad rights in the licensor's technology, sue the licensor for intellectual property (IP) infringement, and not have to worry about losing its license to technology licensed under the UPL. As you can imagine, this is very attractive to those entities who frequently engage in litigation."
The license approval request can be found here.
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