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Posted to legal-discuss@apache.org by ma...@apache.org on 2017/08/16 15:51:26 UTC
svn commit: r1805211 -
/infrastructure/site/trunk/content/legal/resolved.mdtext
Author: mattmann
Date: Wed Aug 16 15:51:26 2017
New Revision: 1805211
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1805211&view=rev
Log:
Update to allow RocksDB since it is ALv2 dual licensed; be specific about Facebook BSD+patents.
Modified:
infrastructure/site/trunk/content/legal/resolved.mdtext
Modified: infrastructure/site/trunk/content/legal/resolved.mdtext
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/infrastructure/site/trunk/content/legal/resolved.mdtext?rev=1805211&r1=1805210&r2=1805211&view=diff
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--- infrastructure/site/trunk/content/legal/resolved.mdtext (original)
+++ infrastructure/site/trunk/content/legal/resolved.mdtext Wed Aug 16 15:51:26 2017
@@ -103,7 +103,6 @@ as the *Category A* list.
- Non-commercial licenses:
- [Creative Commons Non-Commercial](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license#Non-commercial_licenses) variants
- [Sun Community Source License 3.0](http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/SCSL3.0.rtf)
-- [Rocks DB License](https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/blob/master/LICENSE)
- [Facebook BSD+Patents license](https://code.facebook.com/pages/850928938376556)
This list is colloquially known as the *Category X* list. Further discussion of disallowed licenses:
@@ -158,9 +157,12 @@ Rocks DB License
they cannot be sublicensed as ALv2.
Facebook BSD+Patents license
-: The Facebook BSD+Patents License is the more industry standard term for
- the Rocks DB license and its variants. The same conditions for Rocks DB
- apply to the use of the Facebook BSD+Patents license in ASF products.
+: The Facebook BSD+Patents license includes a specification of a PATENTS file that
+ passes along risk to downstream consumers of our software imbalanced
+ in favor of the licensor, not the licensee, thereby violating our Apache
+ legal policy of being a [universal donor](https://s.apache.org/4Uzg).
+ The terms of Facebook BSD+Patents license are not a subset of those found in the ALv2, and
+ they cannot be sublicensed as ALv2.
## How should "Weak Copyleft" Licenses be handled? ## {#category-b}
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