License Approval Request: Open Innovation License (OPNL and OPNL-2.0)

Hi, I saw the two sources you have.

First source explicitly mentions, “What the court will see is that the language is intentionally broad and open-ended”, and in response to “It gives licensees a strong argument against any claim by a licensor that they didn’t give permission for the licensee to do that specific thing with the software, even if the thought clearly didn’t occur to either side when the license was given.”, I have explicitly stated that I believe with usage permissions and the broad range of technology and creative works it mentions, this area should be more covered.

Also the second source seems to be in my case:
“Now, let’s return to the MIT License. There is an express license. Does that express license grant patent rights? Indeed, with permission granted “to deal in the Software without restriction,” it does. And there is no need to arrive at that conclusion via anything more than a direct reading of the words that grant the license.”

I also want to emphasize that the only actual restriction of my license is including the license file which is default.

This context is taking from the first source seen here and the second source is here. Those are direct word for word quotations.

I said, I understand your main point and am taking it into consideration. This doesn’t mean that I am wrong or that either one of my licenses are invalid. You are making it sound like both of those two sources are fully against my statements when they aren’t (at least my takeaway).

Like I said, we agree to disagree.

Late to this and did not read all the previous discussion.

I find it highly disingenuous to try to write philosophical and ethical statements in the style of legal boilerplate, including the supposedly legal claim to not be legally enforceable.

The GNU GPL family has an important philosophical manifesto at the beginning of the license. It serves a primary purpose of being human-readable and meaningful. On a secondary aspect, it provides context for the interpretation of the legal language that follows.

Trying to put the philosophical, ethical points inside the legal license terms while trying to avoid the issues of legal enforcement is fundamentally misguided.

If you want to make a statement about ethics as part of a license, follow the GNU model of separating the statement into a preface and write it in political, philosophical, ethical language.

The effort to make something seem legalistic without being legal results in nonsense.