Ownership of the CPL License
I previously wrote about ownership of software being licensed, but I should also comment on ownership of the license itself. We must also distinguish between ownership of copyrightable intellectual property that is the license and ownership of a copy of that license.
When a Contributor licenses software to a Recipient under the CPL, a new copy of the license is created binding the parties to the terms of their agreement. IBM, the author of the CPL and the owner of the copyright in that work, expressly authorizes everyone to make such copies of the license but reserves the right to create derivative works of the license:
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute copies of this Agreement, but in order to avoid inconsistency ...
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