Re: and yet another license complaint

mark kandianis wrote:
[...]
> academic free license is your personal pet?  

My "personal pet" is the CPL.

> so to take this discussion onto more positive ground,
> what is it that you so like about it?

Briefly,

 - it's a contract;

 - derivative works subject to CPL;

 - grant of patent license (it is terminated if recipient 
   institutes patent litigation against licensor or against
   any entity alleging that the program infringes recipient's 
   patent(s)); http://eclipse.org/legal/legalfaq.html#use_10

 - redistribution of binaries under a different license, 
   even a commercial license, is permitted (but the CPL'd
   source code must still be made available under the CPL);

 - Commercial distributors/contributors agree to defend and 
   indemnify every other contributor (this obligation does 
   not apply to any claims or losses relating to any actual 
   or alleged intellectual property infringement);

 - CPL'd code may be combined with other licensed code 
   without affecting the other code's license.

regards,
alexander.