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Apache 2.0 and patent grant to the code not related to the contribution
Imagine, a company, contributes to a huge Apache 2.0 project. The company owns a patent. The project is huge, and there's a small fragment of its code which infringes on the patent. The company ...
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Apache-2.0 and MPL-2.0: To what extent does "license termination when instituting litigation" applied?
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Apache-2.0 and MPL-2.0 contain a clause that if you sue the project/user for infringement of your patent, all of the licenses you have been granted are terminated (though the exact rights ...
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Given the existence of the Apache license, and the reasons for it over MIT/BSD license, is it still safe to use MIT/BSD?
Apache license exists as a permissive open-source license as opposed to MIT/BSD license with the perceived benefit that it also protects authors from patent violations. Although I think I read ...
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Why is the Apache license 2.0 patent license clause useful/important?
I've read the Apache 2.0 license (A2L), in particular its clause regarding patent licensing (see below). I don't quite understand what's the use of it.
If Alice lets Bob use a piece of software under ...
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What are the implications of Apple's Swift related patents?
Patent US9952841B2 - Programming system and language for application development -
To make the question more concrete (based on this post in the Swift forum) -
Is it safe for a new distinct ...
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Patent rights: BSD-3-Clause-Clear vs BSD-3-Clause
While the BSD-3-Clause is well known and thoroughly discussed here and elsewhere, I have been unable to find much information on precisely how the additional patent stipulation in the BSD-3-Clause-...
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Interpretation of the Patent clause of Apache 2.0
While it is clear what a "Contributor" to an Apache 2.0 licensed software has to do when its work abide to the license I am struggling with what an user of an Apache 2.0 library has to do in the ...
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Do I lose the right to use my patent after contributing to a project with Apache License 2.0?
Apache License 2.0:
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, ...
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What exactly does "If You […] litigation is filed" from Apache2 license mean?
I am not an native English speaker so the paragraph below is really hard for me to understand.
From https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0:
If You institute patent litigation against any ...
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What does "express grant of patent rights from contributors to users" mean?
I'm trying to choose which open source license I should use in my app, and in the description for one of the licenses, it says the license provides an "express grant of patent rights from contributors ...
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How does the Apache 2 license's patent grant interact with third-party patents?
From what I've read about the Apache 2 license's patent grant clause, it's intended to protect users of Apache-licensed software from software patents. How does that work if the contributor doesn't ...
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Does the Apache license provide any benefit if I don't have any patents?
As far as I understand, the Apache 2.0 license is a fairly permissive license. It seems to me as if the only difference between the Apache license and other licenses (such as the MIT license), is the ...
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Against what does the Apache 2.0 patent clause protect?
The Apache 2.0 patent clause says:
Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, ...
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