alt Hacker NewsThe not-quite-Apache-2 "Fair Source License, Version 1.1, ALv2 Future License" (https://github.com/getsentry/fsl.software/blob/main/FSL-1.1-...) includes the Apache 2 patent grant. That grants you conditional permission to use the software in ways that would, without the grant, infringe upon their patent. One of the conditions is that you may not make a claim against any party that the software infringes upon any patent, or else your patent grant is terminated.
Unfortunately, the license actually in the repo is not even a not-quite-Apache-2 license. It doesn't appear to be FSL-1.1-ALv2 at all: https://github.com/statewright/statewright/blob/main/plugins.... This notably does not include the patent grant, which makes it unclear whether use of the software would infringe upon the patent.
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I also just updated the https://statewright.ai/research page to accurately reflect the intent and mention the patent grant afforded under FSL-1.1-ALv2. Thanks again for calling my attention to this.
You're right, and I have just corrected this. The license in the repo now uses the canonical FSL-1.1-ALv2 based on the template from fsl.software and now includes the patent grant clause.
The omission wasn't intentional -- the patent grant wasn't on my radar when the original license text was committed. FSL licensing is very new territory for me and I duffed it slightly, now corrected.