Re: The new apache license

[gabe f <gabe_1@comcast.net>]

Bryan Irvine wrote:
>>I can't see anything in it that makes it less free though. What am I 
>>missing?
> 
> 
> What aboout this?
> 
> "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."
> 
> If you sue anyone, your right to use _ANY_ software with the apache
> license is revoked.
> 
> That the way I parse it anyway.
> Someone correct me because I really don't want to read it this way.
> 
> 
> --Bryan
> 
> 
No, This is the entire section:

``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.''

--> Which means that if you were using Apache for any reason, and then
said
that either Apache or one of its components (Contributions) was
a patent infringement to your product, then you can no longer use
Apache.