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The company I am currently working for has prohibitively strict rules of=
 certifying third party software libraries used in their applications. Yet=
, they don't mind large chunks of "custom" code in their packages.=20

The question they asked in the past was whether license at the top of sour=
ce files provided under Apache v2 license can be removed(don't ask me why)=
 if they only use software in their application. If I read the license cor=
rectly, the answer is "yes, they can"(since they don't redistribute the co=
de or derived work further). Do I read this correctly?


Regards,
Alex




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raries used in their applications. Yet, they don't mind large chunks of "c=
ustom" code in their packages.&nbsp;</span><br>
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<span>The question they asked in the past was whether license at the top=
 of source files provided under Apache v2 license can be removed(don't ask=
 me why) if they only use software in their application. If I read the lic=
ense correctly, the answer is "yes, they can"(since they don't redistribut=
e the code or derived work further). Do I read this correctly?</span></spa=
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