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License bikeshedding is fun, so please indulge me. People dislike apache because it's complicated and requires annoying notices on distribution of modified ver
by dmm 10y ago
License bikeshedding is fun, so please indulge me.
People dislike apache because it's complicated and requires annoying notices on distribution of modified versions. Debian and fsf say it's free. OpenBSD believes the patent provisions are non-free and refuses to include apache licensed software.
I think a project is better off having non-trivial contributers sign explicit license grants, even you admit that explicit is better than implicit.
- liveoneggs 10y agountil they are taken to court the licenses are all just assumptions. Did OpenBSD have a lawyer review this decision and post the language somewhere?
- geofft 10y agoI don't understand how the OpenBSD project defines "free", so I can't usefully comment on how they consider the Apache license "non-free". It sounds from https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/263227/why-are-apache-2-0-works-excluded-from-openbsd https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2632... like they are reading the existence of an explicit patent clause in the Apache license (regardless of what that clause is!) as an "additional restriction". I want to know whether they believe the MIT license has a patent grant, and if not, what they think "Permission to use" means.