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    license: Convert from Apache 2.0 to BSD · 36737886
    Chad Versace authored
    
    
    Jordan Justen brought to my attention that, according to the Apache and
    GNU websites, Apache 2.0 is incompatible with GPLv2 because GPLv2 lacks
    a patent indemnification clause. (It is compatible with GPLv3, however).
    See [1] [2] [3].
    
    By the same logic, a lawyer could argue that Apache 2.0 is also
    incompatible, in one direction only, with minimal gift licenses such as
    BSD and MIT.
    
    I do not want license incompatibility to prevent any project from using
    Waffle's code, so I'm converting the project to use the most liberal
    license possible, BSD 2-clause [4].
    
    [1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html
    [2] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#apache2
    [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_License#GPL_compatibility
    [4] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
    
    CC: Jordan Justen <jljusten@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChad Versace <chad.versace@linux.intel.com>
    36737886
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