A user sues you for patent infringement and keeps using the code — Apache-2.0
- 1 · You publish under Apache-2.0Apache License 2.0
- 2 · The situationA user sues you for patent infringement and keeps using the codeSomeone else does this
- 3 · ResultBlocked by licensePatent license terminates
Relevant clause
Apache-2.0 §3 Grant of Patent License — Official text
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Same scenario, other licenses
- Not addressed MIT
- Not addressed BSD-3
- Blocked by license MPL-2.0
- Blocked by license LGPL-3.0
- Blocked by license GPL-3.0
- Blocked by license AGPL-3.0
- Blocked by license MulanPSL-2.0
- Blocked by license SSPL-1.0
- Not addressed BSL-1.1
- Blocked by license ELv2
- Not addressed BSD-2
- Not addressed ISC
- Not addressed Unlicense
- Not addressed Zlib
- Not addressed Boost-1.0
- Not addressed MIT-0
- Not addressed PostgreSQL
- Not addressed Unicode-3.0
- Blocked by license Apache-2.0+LLVM
- Not addressed GPL-2.0
- Not addressed GPL-2.0+CPE
- Not addressed LGPL-2.1
- Blocked by license EPL-2.0
- Blocked by license EPL-1.0
- Blocked by license CDDL-1.0
- Blocked by license APSL-2.0
- Blocked by license Artistic-2.0
- Not addressed Perl-5
- Not addressed LPPL-1.3c
- Blocked by license FSL-1.1
- Blocked by license RSALv2
- Not addressed Confluent CL
- Not addressed UPL-1.0
Other scenarios for Apache-2.0
- AllowedA1 A cloud vendor sells your project as a managed service
- AllowedA2 Someone forks it and distributes a closed-source competitor
- AllowedA3 Embedded in a closed-source SaaS backend (not distributed)
- AllowedA4 Linked into a closed-source app or firmware and distributed
- Blocked by licenseA5 Someone promotes a modified version with your name or trademark
- AllowedA6 Someone sells unmodified copies
- Blocked by licenseB2 A contributor asserts patents on their contributed code
- Not addressedB3 A cross-border dispute: governing law and venue
- With conditionsC1 You later relicense or sell commercial licenses (contributors signed no CLA)
- AllowedC2 Your code is merged into a GPL-3.0 project
- Blocked by licenseC3 You use a GPL-3.0 dependency and still ship under this license
- AllowedC4 The project is abandoned and someone forks it to continue
- Blocked by licenseC5 You want to block only big companies or competitors
- Not addressedC6 Key code was written by an employee and the employer objects
- Blocked by licenseD1 Someone removes copyright or attribution notices
- Blocked by licenseD2 Someone modifies files without marking the changes
- AllowedD3 Internal modification, no distribution and no external service
- AllowedD4 Used for military, surveillance or other uses you object to
- Not addressedD5 Used by a sanctioned entity
- Not addressedD6 Your code is used to train an AI model