[Fedora-legal-list] Helping the Fan project relicense from AFL

Hi all, I'm currently discussing with the developers for Fan (http://fandev.org/), a JVM/CLR language, the possibility of them relicensing or dual-licensing from the Academic Free License. Current discussion thread here: http://fandev.org/sidewalk/topic/777 The main concern seems to be that whatever new license they pick has patent defense clauses, and the developer that responded, Brian, is under the opinion that the Apache license does not provide this (IANAL, but my reading is that it does). We are likely able to convince them to switch to either ASL 2.0 or (L)GPLv3+, so if someone from the legal team (Spot?) could address this concern, we have one more application that suddenly can interoperate with more FLOSS libraries. Thanks, -- Michel Alexandre Salim