Jason Felice writes: > This same verbiage appears in the Apache license and the Artistic license
This is false. What I quoted is the EPL patent retaliation clause and Apache 2.0 has no such clause. Perhaps you are thinking about the Apache 2.0's Grant of Patent clause, which is similar to EPL's Grant of Right clause. I refer you to Apache 2.0 to confirm for yourself http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Make no mistakes, the EPL's patent retaliation clause is *not* corporate friendly. If it has been approved at some corporates, it will have been after careful legal considerations that are simply not necessary for Apache 2.0 licenced software. > Sam Halliday wrote: >> It's got nothing to do with contributing to Clojure (the Grant of Right >> is standard in all modern free software licences). The problem is the >> patent retaliation clause, which I quote from Section 7 of the >> [EPL](http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html) >> >> "If Recipient institutes patent litigation against any entity >> (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that >> the Program itself (excluding combinations of the Program with other >> software or hardware) infringes such Recipient's patent(s), then such >> Recipient's rights granted under Section 2(b) shall terminate as of >> the date such litigation is filed." >> >> In other words, if you ever have a legal dispute with anybady about a >> patent violation in clojure (which somebody else could have contributed >> without your permission), then you lose your right to use clojure. As >> in, turn off your production systems, now. >> >> This could be persued by anybody (corporate or individual, including the >> person who you are suing for implementing your patents) who has ever >> contributed to Clojure. Rich Hickey is in a privileged position where he >> can grant ad hoc / tailored licences to corporate customers, granting >> immunity to the patent retaliation clause. -- Best regards, Sam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
