I note that the Free Software Foundation have updated their licence list at <http://www.fsf.org/licenses/license-list.html> as follows:
""" The Apache Software License, version 2.0
This is a free software license but it is incompatible with the GPL. The Apache Software License is incompatible with the GPL because it has a specific requirement that is not in the GPL: it has certain patent termination cases that the GPL does not require. (We don't think those patent termination cases are inherently a bad idea, but nonetheless they are incompatible with the GNU GPL.)
"""
So there you have it from the gnu's mouth, so to speak. :o( I very much hope GPL version 3 is able to address this by including a compatible patent clause.
Regards,
Dave
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