Patent termination clauses

• MPL terminates for any patent suit against a contributor
  • Justified termination
  • But only for that contributor's license to you
    
    
• ASL 2.0 terminates for suits targeting the codebase
  

  "If You institute patent litigation ... alleging that the Work ... constitutes ... patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to You under this License for that Work shall terminate...."

  
  

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