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To me, the Apache 2.0 License seems to have too much verbiage. I'd much rather see a license similar to MIT/BSD/ISC but with a patent grant. Could someone write
by gpvos 10y ago
To me, the Apache 2.0 License seems to have too much verbiage. I'd much rather see a license similar to MIT/BSD/ISC but with a patent grant. Could someone write that up in a way that lawyers like it?
- falcolas 10y agoThink of legalise as a low level language for defining law. It has to cover not only the common cases, but also the corner cases, account for differences in running environments (i.e. courts), cover bugs found in previous versions, and so forth. Even simple programs, made robust enough to run anywhere, get pretty damned big. That makes the Apache 2.0 license a simpler choice than a MIT style license (from the point of view of a lawyer), as it's incredibly explicit and battle tested.
- kemitchell 10y agoMikeal Rogers of the Node Foundation has been in my ear about this more than once. I've done some work on new, plain-language permissive terms with clear patent license, but haven't anything to show publicly for it yet.