Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
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>
> Dalibor Topic wrote:
>> Leo Simons wrote:
>>
>>>> , that that can
>>>> lead to no end of confusion over the actual license of a VM using
>>>> modules from Harmony, if the SableVM developer believes to have a
>>>> say in
>>>> it.
>>>
>>> No I would say that it cannot, since that sablevm developer would at
>>> a minimum
>>> have licensed the software under the apache license to apache, and
>>> then apache
>>> would have licensed that software to the end user under the apache
>>> license, and
>>> what that means is rather clear.
>>>
>>
>> It's not clear at all to me from reading the ASL2, so let's spell it
>> out: Would such a hypothetical developer have a say in the license of
>> a VM using Harmony's modules or not? Cliff?
>
> No.
I thought about this for a second more - the apache license is a license
from each contributor of their contribution to the licensee, so I
would guess that yes, any contributor could hypothetically have a say on
what a licensee does w/in the boundaries of their contribution.
I dunno. I am not a lawyer, and I'm really tired :)
geir
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