Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Patent” license

Re:Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Pate... by madhadron on Sunday July 16, 2017 @08:45PM (#14784921)

If the other developers did so without asking formal permission, then if the company was sued, they'll just pass it on to the developer.

The happy medium that I've found is to provide a list of acceptable licenses and let lead engineers audit that software to be included obey them.

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Re:Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Pate... by LoSboccacc on Monday July 17, 2017 @08:07AM (#14787710)

but still many licenses have legal requirements. i.e. I was working at a fortune 50 rare open source project, we had an acceptable license list but still all the source code needed to be audited for dependencies licenses and the legal team produced the license file to be included in distribution with all the notices as required by mit and apache

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Re:Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Pate... by reboog711 on Monday July 17, 2017 @09:24AM (#14788247)

I tried very hard to negotiate that happy medium, but was shot down.

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