What is permissive-next for?

James Frost james at frost.cx
Sun Jul 6 19:59:28 UTC 2025


I was wondering what the intent of the permissive-next[1] licence was?

By my reading it is essentially equivalent to the Apache 2.0 licence, 
does it add anything that I have missed? It seems to me that permissive 
licences are plenty well covered by the Apache 2.0/MIT/BSD licences.

Does this licence add anything over Apache 2.0 that I have missed, or is 
there some other reason for its creation?

Thanks,
James.

[1]: 
https://git.copyleft.org/copyleft-next/copyleft-next/src/commit/85138bac3ff7e0d94a6c76ae1ea3ba7011efad07/Drafts/permissive-next



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