On Mar 31, 2005, at 2:23 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
At 09:31 PM 3/30/2005, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
I have every right to claim that I granted the rights for you to produce stoves under my license. Not furnaces. I insist on $5 per furnace.
As Larry Rosen reminds me, the magic word "derivative" in our license likely solves this issue. What is derivative? Solving ftp in the context of the Apache HTTP Server? Using the crypto logic from Apache HTTP Server to power the Tomcat Server? All of these sorts of activities seem to be derivative, so the ASL2 patent grant seems sufficiently broad. I no longer see any issues coming from patented logic submitted to the ASF under the ASL2. Obviously external patents held by non-contributors will always remain a concern.
The AL2 patent grant has no language about "derivative" or "sublicense".
geir
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