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On 2013-05-02 17:03:03 -0700 (-0700), Mark Washenberger wrote:
> I was wondering that as well as I re-read my notes. However,
> digging deeper, it looks like our contributor agreement is
> substantially the same as theirs, and I can't find the word
> "assign" in their contributor agreement anywhere.
[...]

There I go believing things I hear and not following through with
due diligence of research. Apparently this is still debated within
ASF as well, as evidenced by this recent thread:

    http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/201211.mbox/%3c081301cdb7d8$465a62c0$d30f2840$@rosenlaw.com%3e

> The "Grant of Patent License" sections look similar as well (and
> also fun! I love the bit about terminating licensing to any
> entity that enters into litigation against a contributor).

Funny story there, that clause apparently is why the FSF considers
the current ASL (2.0) to be incompatible with GPL up through v2 (but
compatible with GPL v3 at least):

    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#apache2

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Jeremy Stanley