Jennifer Machovec, who's drafting the license, posted a new
version to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on November 13. You can read it at
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=24
Correction: Jennifer Machovec is not drafting the license. She is an attorney at IBM who submitted comments on behalf of IBM.
I am drafting the license on behalf of the ASF. I will most likely include the changes that IBM suggested, assuming that there aren't any more objections. We've already gone through several iterations on the patent sentences, mostly to deal with derivative work, so it isn't too surprising that we need to scale it back again.
FYI, prior to a couple months ago, Drew Wright was representing IBM and made many suggestions to improve the license. I have also had discussions with folks from Apple, Sun, Mozilla, OSI, FSF, and a few independent attorneys. The hope is that the license will be reviewed by all of the companies that use Apache software, since that is less expensive than us hiring a couple thousand IP lawyers.
....Roy
