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by sbuttgereit 779 days ago
It's worse than that. The license opens with the standard clause:

"Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License."

But then proceeds to modify the license terms. This makes it definitionally -not- Apache 2 and no amount of word-smithing can get you out of that (appendix?).

There's a certain dishonesty in saying, "hey we're open source Apache" and then demanding a source available "something else". It's not even smart dishonesty... You offer the Apache original terms, but then you have to make it sufficiently clear those aren't really the terms enough that any fool can see this isn't the Apache terms after all.