[License-discuss] CAL clarification

[VanL]

Hi Nicholas,

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 6:44 PM Nicholas Matthew Neft Weinstock <
nweinsto at qti.qualcomm.com> wrote:

>
> 3.1. Permissions Granted
> Conditioned on compliance with section 4, and subject to the limitations
> of section 3.2, Licensor grants You the world-wide, royalty-free,
> non-exclusive permission to:
> ...
> b) Take any action with the Work that would infringe any patent claims
> that Licensor can license or becomes able to license, to the extent that
> those claims are embodied in the Work as distributed by Licensor.
>

I have two questions:
> 1) If someone contributes a small patch to a CAL project, and otherwise
> never distributes that CAL project (modified or unmodified), are they only
> granting a license to patents that fully read on their patch?
>

This depends on the contribution policy for the project, not the CAL
itself. Some projects have an inbound license agreement that only applies
to the patch, others to the project as a whole.

If the CAL itself is used as the license for the contribution, then your
supposition would be correct.


> 2) Does someone become a Licensor when they distribute an unmodified CAL
> project?
>

No, a licensor must have licensable material in the distributed project.

Thanks,
Van
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