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Apache License 2.0 is as good as donating it. Just now, nobody can sue anyone else for that design feature. Edit: actually, see below.
by thekingofh 8y ago
Apache License 2.0 is as good as donating it. Just now, nobody can sue anyone else for that design feature.
Edit: actually, see below.
- solomatov 8y agoIANAL, but as far as I understand Apache 2.0, it grants patent license only in cases which were used in the original code, not universally.
- thekingofh 8y agoYou know what. I looked again at the license. I think this is the first time I've noticed a flaw in the Apache 2.0 license. I think you are right. Derived works is described as: "Derivative Works" shall mean any work, whether in Source or Object form, that is based on (or derived from) the Work and for which the editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications represent, as a whole, an original work of authorship. For the purposes of this License, Derivative Works shall not include works that remain separable from, or merely link (or bind by name) to the interfaces of, the Work and Derivative Works thereof."