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The original Apache license was similar to the Berkeley license, |
The original Apache license was similar to the Berkeley license, |
but source code published under version 2 of the Apache license is |
but source code published under version 2 of the Apache license is |
subject to additional restrictions and cannot be included into OpenBSD. |
subject to additional restrictions and cannot be included into OpenBSD. |
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In particular, if you use code under the Apache 2 license, some of |
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your rights will terminate if you claim in court that the code |
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violates a patent. |
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A license can only be considered fully permissive if it allows use |
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by anyone for all the future without giving up any of their rights. |
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If there are conditions that might terminate any rights in the |
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future, or if you have to give up a right that you would otherwise |
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have, even if exercising that right could reasonably be regarded |
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as morally objectionable, the code is not free. |
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In addition, the clause about the patent license is problematic because |
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a patent license cannot be granted under Copyright law, but only under |
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contract law, which drags the whole license into the domain of contract |
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law. But while Copyright law is somewhat standardized by international |
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agreements, contract law differs wildly among jurisdictions. So what |
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the license means in different jurisdictions may vary and is hard to |
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predict. |
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<dt>ISC<dd><p> |
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