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The Lil License kind of makes sense if you think about it as an attempt to add explicit patent protection to an ISC or MIT-style license. But only "kind of".
by carussell 9y ago
The Lil License kind of makes sense if you think about it as an attempt to add explicit patent protection to an ISC or MIT-style license. But only "kind of".
What the patent system gives a patentholder is the ability to selectively prohibit others from making, selling, or using some product or method protected by the patent. The Lil License is weird in that it only explicitly mentions the latter.
Its text regarding copies of the license is also very weird.
Please do not use this license.
- jsnathan 9y agoThe term 'usage rights' is a bit confusing here. I think it may be intended to refer to 'use' as defined in the previous half of the sentence, i.e. 'including the rights to run, read, copy, change, distribute and sell'. Maybe this should be made clearer somehow, e.g. 'and including any herefore necessary license to patents the authors may hold'.