Hi, On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote:
>> I would like to take this one step further so that the anti-patent >> clause covers use as well as distribution. I propose the license >> below, a BSD derivative. >> > > I'm afraid I'm a month late here, but . . . > > http://copyfree.org/licenses/coil/license.txt Apache License 2.0 is better when it comes to legal wordings. http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 "3. Grant of Patent License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Work, where such license applies only to those patent claims licensable by such Contributor that are necessarily infringed by their Contribution(s) alone or by combination of their Contribution(s) with the Work to which such Contribution(s) was submitted. If You institute patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the Work or a Contribution incorporated within the Work constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to You under this License for that Work shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed." Even golang is better : http://golang.org/PATENTS IMHO, if you want to base something on then go with Apache 2 rather than BSD/MIT since Apache is most bullet proof license when it comes to legal wordings. Even Google uses it for most of its projects. I had some minor issues with Apache license - Redistribution clause - sections 1, 2 & 4. So I went ahead and modified the Apache license to suite my needs. Its just a template right now - nothing serious. https://github.com/octabrain/notache/blob/master/LICENSE-1.0.txt Regards. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
