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Comment by striking

5 days ago

The not-quite-Apache-2 "Fair Source License, Version 1.1, ALv2 Future License" (https://github.com/getsentry/fsl.software/blob/main/FSL-1.1-...) includes the Apache 2 patent grant. That grants you conditional permission to use the software in ways that would, without the grant, infringe upon their patent. One of the conditions is that you may not make a claim against any party that the software infringes upon any patent, or else your patent grant is terminated.

Unfortunately, the license actually in the repo is not even a not-quite-Apache-2 license. It doesn't appear to be FSL-1.1-ALv2 at all: https://github.com/statewright/statewright/blob/main/plugins.... This notably does not include the patent grant, which makes it unclear whether use of the software would infringe upon the patent.

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azurewraith  5 days ago

You're right, and I have just corrected this. The license in the repo now uses the canonical FSL-1.1-ALv2 based on the template from fsl.software and now includes the patent grant clause.

The omission wasn't intentional -- the patent grant wasn't on my radar when the original license text was committed. FSL licensing is very new territory for me and I duffed it slightly, now corrected.

  • nextaccountic  5 days ago

    That's odd, Cargo.toml says license is Apache 2

    https://github.com/statewright/statewright/blob/main/Cargo.t...

    Is that wrong?

    • azurewraith  5 days ago

      the Cargo.toml covers the built Rust crates (engine, agent). the plugins/ directory has it's own LICENSE.md with the FSL terms. split license: the engine is completely open source, plugins FSL with a 3 year clock. I should make this clearer in the workspace config. I am planning on releasing more of the crates, they will likely be FSL and each of those crates will have a LICENSE.md override. I think this is the canonical pattern but anyone please correct me