Apache style issue

[John Cowan]

Dag-Erling Smørgrav scripsit:

> No, it places additional conditions on the licensee's right to
> distribute.

I don't see it.  Here's the text:

# Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor
# hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge,
# royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent
# license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and
# otherwise transfer the Work, where such license applies only to those
# patent claims licensable by such Contributor that are necessarily
# infringed by their Contribution(s) alone or by combination of
# their Contribution(s) with the Work to which such Contribution(s)
# was submitted. If You institute patent litigation against any entity
# (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that
# the Work or a Contribution incorporated within the Work constitutes
# direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses
# granted to You under this License for that Work shall terminate as of
# the date such litigation is filed.

The first sentence grants You a bunch of licenses to
necessarily-infringing patents owned by the Contributors.  The second
sentence limits Your right to sue Contributors for patent infringement
on pain of losing the license.  Where's the restriction on distribution?

I am not being sarcastic here.  Please explain what you have in mind.

>  3) a party that receives a copy of the software and redistributes it.
> 
> I believe you made the mistake of focussing exclusively on 2) and
> forgetting about 3).

I still don't see it.

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