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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:17:30 -0700
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Subject: Re: Question about Apache License 2.0
From: Henri Yandell <bayard@apache.org>
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Copying relevant text:

"If You institute patent litigation against any entity (including a
cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the Work or a
Contribution incorporated within the Work constitutes direct or
contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to
You under this License for that Work shall terminate as of the date
such litigation is filed. "

Namely, the termination is of the patent licenses granted to Tom for ABC.

Mozilla Public License, iiuc, goes further and removes the license to
use ABC. I'm not aware of other licenses that go that far (well, apart
presumably from CDDL which is an MPL derivative).

Hen

2010/4/20 Andy Zhu <zhuruwei@huawei.com>:
> Hi all
>
> Assume that both Tom and I are users of open-source software ABC which
> uses Apache License 2.0.
> If someday Tom institutes patent litigation against me alleging that ABC
> constitutes direct patent infringement, then Tom can not use ABC
> neither, right?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- Andy
>
>
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