On Jul 29, 2005, at 11:06 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote:
And for ALv2 it is about the patent grants and license termination.
(Personally, I don't understand the usa case that FSF Legal Counsel is
constructing, but it looks very bizarre, as it involves the patent
owner to
license code covered by the patent under GPL.)
Niclas and Jim have both commented on the ASF's goals in licensing,
as opposed to the legal language in the Apache License v2, so I'll leave
that topic aside.
I will point out that the complex argument about patents does not appear
to me to apply for the Sleepycat public license. We've a much shorter
and
less complex license. We don't have the "no additional restrictions"
language
that appears in the GPL, and specifically without limitations on
patents. So,
from a straight legal perspective, putting Berkeley DB and some Apache
Licensed software together in a single project isn't a problem.
mike
