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Re:Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringem... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:12PM (#30367152)
Surely why they granted it and they intent they had should matter for morals.

"Specifically and explicitly" is much more of a legal argument.

Re:Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringem... by sokoloff on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:48PM (#30367510)
From a purely practical angle, how am I to ascertain why they chose Apache 2.0 as the license and how should I weigh that knowledge/guess against the crystal clear grant terms of “Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare Derivative Works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute the Work and such Derivative Works in Source or Object form.”?

If I license any of my code under that license, I hope someone builds a billion dollar business on it. If someone else does the same, how should a licensor understand the difference and act accordingly?