Why not adopt the Educational Community License (ECL)?
The Educational Community License v2 (ECL) is identical to the Apache License v2, except for a minor change in section 3 that narrows the conditions of any implicit patent grant. This change was requested by some institutions participating in some key projects specific to higher education. Only the Sakai project and the Kuali projects appear to use the ECL at this time. Jasig projects have tended to be more infrastructure focused and are not exclusive to the domain of higher education. Jasig did not want to adopt the ECL because its relative obscurity outside higher education would be a barrier to widespread adoption of Jasig projects. Jasig also notes that several other infrastructure projects in higher education, such as Fluid and Shibboleth, have also avoided the ECL and have adopted the Apache License.
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