Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Patent” license

Re:Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Pate... by FRex on Saturday July 15, 2017 @11:21PM (#14780307)

RakNet does that too (it's owned by Facebook via Occulus for a while now, Facebook bought Occulus then Occulus bought RakNet): https://github.com/facebookarchive/RakNet/blob/master/PATENT...

Is this widespread at all or is it just Facebook..?

Edit: I'm glad to be downvoted for asking a genuine fucking question if anyone else does this since Apache mentions Facebook and the only place I ran into PATENTS file is another Facebook property and googling brings nothing up except more React..

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Re:Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Pate... by cosinetau on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:28PM (#14841817)

I love that while we discuss this awful attitude by the corporate giants like Facebook and Google, internally in "our own" (HN really isn't the community's, get a grip) we are CONSTANTLY worrying about getting downvoted for asking what we see as a genuine question.

There's a larger problem here, and I feel it comes down to our collective attitudes.

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