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Re: [fielding@apache.org: Review of proposed Apache License, version 2.0]



On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 02:55:56PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote:
> No sane company will ever grant a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide,
> fully paid-up and royalty free patent licence without a reciprocity
> clause.

No sane company will ever grant a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide,
fully paid-up and royalty free copyright license without a reciprocity
clause.

Oh, wait... RedHat and IBM, to pick two at random.

I see no reason why patents should be any different here. All your
arguments apply equally to copyright.

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