[License-discuss] Modified Apache License

[Langley, Stuart]

Mark, that is our intention.  If we presented it for approval it would be the whole license with the change, and under a distinct name.  I wanted to float the suggestion here to get just the kind of feedback I'm getting.  

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> Hi Stuart,
> 
> Can I suggest that you give your new license a name to clearly
> distinguish it from other licenses, particularly the ALv2?
> 
> Downstream users of your open source products need to describe the
> licenses of their dependencies and they don't have an easy way to refer
> to your license. My primary concern is that they could end up creating
> their own name for your license that is confusingly similar to the ALv2.
> 
> Something like the "Disney Open Source License, version 1" maybe?
> 
> Regarding whether or not the ASF is likely to accept your change as an
> amendment to the ALv2, I can't provide a definitive answer but I suspect
> that the amendment would be more restrictive than the ASF would wish. If
> you want to pursue that, the ASF Legal Jira instance is the best place
> to ask that question and get a definitive answer:
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> Kind regards,
> 
> Mark
> 
> Mark Thomas
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