Apache style issue

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Wed Aug 19 18:43:01 UTC 2009


Dag-Erling Smørgrav scripsit:
> John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> writes:
> > As I read it, there are three such restrictions: you must preserve the
> > license itself and all relevant notices, including any in a NOTICE file;
> > you must mark your changes; you give up the right to sue the licensor
> > in certain cases.  All of these are trivial to achieve, and IMO are what
> > a morally worthy person would do anyhow.
> 
> There is a patent grant clause which is *far* from trivial.

Yes, but that grants rights, it doesn't restrict rights!  (Except
for the right to sue in certain cases, which I already noticed.)

-- 
Ambassador Trentino: I've said enough. I'm a man of few words.
Rufus T. Firefly: I'm a man of one word: scram!
        --Duck Soup                     John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org>



More information about the License-discuss mailing list