On 12/6/16, 3:33 PM, "henrik.i...@gmail.com on behalf of Henrik Ingo" <henrik.i...@gmail.com on behalf of henrik.i...@avoinelama.fi> wrote:
>The question isn't about patents or copyrights. The point is that taking >an OSI approved license and making additions to it by adding a separate >file with additional terms and conditions, results in a combination which >as a whole is not OSI approved open source license. It is no different >from taking the BSD license and making additions to it within the same >file. In what way is the BSD copyright license impacted by an external patent grant license? How is this different than combining a BSD copyright license and an external trademark license agreement? IMHO it has everything to do with whether patents are in or out of scope for OSI license approval for copyright licenses. >I categorize patent grants with wide reaching termination clauses as >commons-friendly. Like I said, my only regret is that there aren¹t >licenses being used that would be even more wide reaching than this one. That¹s fine as long as there are open source licenses with far more narrow grants or no grants whatsoever like CC0. CC0->ECL v2->Apache->React should all be fine from a OSI license approval perspective. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
