Right — I think this is the central point I'm trying to make:

If you want a license where every noun in the license is rigorously defined at the top, where every possible use of the software is spelled out explicitly, and where every eventuality is considered in advance, then the Lil License isn't for you. It's not supposed to be. We already have Apache 2.0 and MPL 2.0 for that, and they're great. Use 'em.

Instead, the goal here is to cover the bases we know we need to cover in 2017 (contributions and patents), while remaining as simple as or simpler than MIT — which is the license that everyone actually uses. It's a different goal.