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by pessimizer 923 days ago
Is there some part of the Apache 2 license that insists that people using Apache 2 licensed code in a project clearly mark what code is Apache 2 and what code is under some other license? Of course not.

Nobody is relicensing the code on other people's computers. If you downloaded code under Apache 2, somebody other than you incorporating that same code into their AGPL project won't relicense the code on your computer, but it certainly will relicense the code on theirs.
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kragen 923 days ago
> Is there some part of the Apache 2 license that insists that people using Apache 2 licensed code in a project clearly mark what code is Apache 2 and what code is under some other license? Of course not.

yes, there is

i quoted the relevant part of the apache 2 license in my sibling comment above

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pessimizer 923 days ago
> You must retain, in the Source form of any Derivative Works that You distribute, all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices from the Source form of the Work, excluding those notices that do not pertain to any part of the Derivative Works

Leaving the notice files in is in no way "marking which code is Apache 2 and which code is under some other license."

edit: this entire discussion evaporates if we abandon the idea that somebody would (or could) go through an AGPLv3 project that incorporated Apache 2 licensed code, and pull out just the Apache 2 code to use in another project. The only way to do that would be to download the Apache 2 licensed code from its original source and diff it against the AGPL project in order to distinguish the code you can use from the code you can't.

It doesn't make any sense. There's no sane preference for copy-pasting from the AGPL project rather than the original code that you've obtained under Apache.

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kragen 923 days ago
i guess you could comply by leaving the apache 2 license in there but then not say which files it applies to, but then you'd be licensing the whole work under the apache 2 license

i don't think you can comply by just removing the apache 2 license

you're right about 'jeez' and i've removed it

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pessimizer 923 days ago
LGPLv3 is more restrictive than Apache 2. The point as that every source file will be under LGPLv3, because it will be Apache 2 code mixed with LGPLv3 code.

The Apache 2 code will remain Apache 2 code, but in a pointless way.

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kragen 923 days ago
agreed, once further modifications accrete
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