Roy T. Fielding wrote: > > That is a very complex set of issues. First, the patent is not only > licensed under the ASL2 -- it is actually licensed by the contributor > to the ASF and any recipient of the ASF's software as part of their > contribution. The Apache License makes the recipient aware of that > license and the condition of reciprocity (as accepted by our > community of contributors) under which that license was granted. > The ASF does not have the right to sublicense any such patent; > we merely pass the license along from the contributors.
except that the 2.0 apache licence can, by design, be used unaltered by other entities than the asf -- so does the above continue to make sense if 'ASF' is replaced by any other entity? i think it does. let's not lose sight of the fact that the licensor applying the licence to its work may be something other than the asf. -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Ken.Coar.Org/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!" -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
