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

[bts@alum.mit.edu (Brian T. Sniffen)]

Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 07:45:04PM -0500, Brian T. Sniffen wrote:
>> In the current patent-litigation context, a large stable of patents to
>> cross-license is considered a vitally important corporate defense
>> strategy.
>
> *shrug* That's not our problem.
>
> President Bush considers a "missile defense shield" a vitally important
> military defense strategy.  That doesn't mean he's right, or that he
> deserves our support.

There's a difference between lack of support, which I endorse, and
active opposition.  A license which has a cost to anyone holding a
software patent, as the currently proposed Apache license, is
non-free.

-Brian

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Brian T. Sniffen                                        bts@alum.mit.edu
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