From 6b5e53e5133c62a09a3e4e4f63ec2fcec45a596b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carl Mastrangelo Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 11:09:28 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] all: remove PATENTS file With the recent move to Apache 2 (#3047) , the need for the PATENTS is longer necessary. The new license covers patents already. --- PATENTS | 22 ---------------------- 1 file changed, 22 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 PATENTS diff --git a/PATENTS b/PATENTS deleted file mode 100644 index 619f9dbfe6..0000000000 --- a/PATENTS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ -Additional IP Rights Grant (Patents) - -"This implementation" means the copyrightable works distributed by -Google as part of the GRPC project. - -Google hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, -no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) -patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, -transfer and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents of this -implementation of GRPC, where such license applies only to those patent -claims, both currently owned or controlled by Google and acquired in -the future, licensable by Google that are necessarily infringed by this -implementation of GRPC. This grant does not include claims that would be -infringed only as a consequence of further modification of this -implementation. If you or your agent or exclusive licensee institute or -order or agree to the institution of patent litigation against any -entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging -that this implementation of GRPC or any code incorporated within this -implementation of GRPC constitutes direct or contributory patent -infringement, or inducement of patent infringement, then any patent -rights granted to you under this License for this implementation of GRPC -shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.