L02-SC: Yes
Rationale
The pinned SCION implementation publishes Apache-2.0. Section 3 expressly grants royalty-free patent rights from contributors for claims licensable by them necessarily infringed by their contributions alone or with the Work. This bounded public commitment meets the same holder-scoped L02 rule used for PRP.
Assessment method
Express patent-clause and applicability review under the common holder-bounded L02 rule
Source context
Version-pinned project licenses and attributable source notices; documentary review 2026-10-17
Outstanding qualification
Patent litigation alleging infringement by the Work or incorporated contributions terminates the section 3 grant. Published implementation-bound grant, not a blanket royalty-free promise for arbitrary independent reimplementations. Credit only claims controlled by the declaring contributors within the grant; no third-party, dependency or underlying-layer clearance is inferred. License compliance remains required. No finding that a patent exists, is valid or is infringed, and no legal-enforceability opinion.
Public sources
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scionproto/scion/e6b0576682c73845a185f14ea68e8b0923374874/LICENSE
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scionproto/scion/e6b0576682c73845a185f14ea68e8b0923374874/README.md
Editorial evidence references
The following identifiers refer to research records not included in this public package; they are not public links.
- round373-sources.json