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