I've incorporated several new suggestions and attached the new draft as plaintext.
- More verbose initial paragraph that's explicit about both copyright and patent license grants - copyright notice -> contributor notice - "use or distribute this software with it" in clause 2 -> "use the hereby granted rights" - more explicit/verbose clause 3 - rewording of the long form copyright/patent paragraphs at the end (before the warranty paragraph) Also, due to a name clash on CPL I somehow missed once the license I'll rename it soonish (once I can think of a new name). Any additional feedback would be welcome. Thank you for your time. On Saturday, 3 August 2019 23:48:38 CEST Moritz Maxeiner wrote: > Hello, > > [...]
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