New Apache License?

Joe Orton jorton at redhat.com
Mon Feb 23 12:19:49 UTC 2004


On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 07:26:25PM +0100, T. Ribbrock wrote:
> I've seen some talk about the consequences of the new XFree86 license,
> but I haven't seen any comments on the new Apache license. Again, like
> in the XFree86 case, the license has become more complicated - only in
> this case immensely so. It's almost impossible to understand without a
> lawyer now (see http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0), which makes
> me wary...
> 
> Also, I've seen comments that the new patent clause may be incompatible
> with the GPL - does anybody know more about this?

The old license was incompatible with the GPL as well, so there is no
new issue there.

joe





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