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What are you referring to?
by bonoboTP 10y ago
What are you referring to?
- akuchling 10y agoSurely to Apache OpenOffice, which hasn't yet built a strong development community under the ASF's umbrella.
- peterkelly 10y ago"Yet". I'm sure it will... just give it more time
- chris_wot 10y agoI think that highly unlikely. Hey can't fix their build process, how do they expect to get new contributors?
- davidgerard 10y agoHow much are you thinking? That is, at what point is your claim testable?
- theandrewbailey 10y agoThe thing with OpenOffice is that (mostly) everyone abandoned it for a better governed fork long before it got handed to the ASF.
- nbevans 10y agoPresumably that Oracle will sue them for patent infringement several years down the line when the claimed damages is far higher.
- reitanqild 10y agoApache should be fairly experienced in ip law matters. It is one of the reasons why being part of Apache is attractive to projects.
- sangnoir 10y agoOracle is likely to sue the users of Apache Netbeans, rather than Apache itself, and The ASF will not be in a position to do anything. After all, Oracle is on the record for sueing Google for using an Apache project (Apache Harmony).
- rectang 10y agoThe patent provisions of the Apache License 2.0 address the possibility of submarine patents. http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0#patent http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0#patent An entity which contributes to an ALv2 project and then sues over a patent which reads on their contribution loses the the patent license grants from other contributors, effectively locking them out of the project.