Roy T. Fielding wrote:

On Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 05:49  PM, Nathanael Nerode wrote:

What you want is a clause like this:

"Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document. Distribution of modified copies is only allowed
if you make it clear that the modified copy is *not* the actual Apache License."

That is better.

I think so too.

I wish we could find a shorter version, or just leave
it out entirely.

Hmmm, I'd prefer to have it I think.

There are already many projects that use the Apache license verbatim instead of using it as a template.

Most of the people I pointed this out to, were not aware of this, so IMHO it's important that something like this is included (unless I have misunderstood the purpose or unless this phrase is not clear enough WRT this issue).

On the other hand, if people want to use this as a template, they will actually be modifying the license and thus cannot call it Apache License but Apache-like license for instance. In reality, everyone calls it Apache license nevertheless, indicating it as everything except the subjects, so there would be a terminology mismatch here.

Oh, the beauty of licenses 8-)

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