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Re:Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Pate... by morecoffee on Sunday July 16, 2017 @01:39AM (#14780664)
Re Google: You are mistaken. A big open source project by Google, gRPC, recently switched from BSD+Patents to Apache 2.0.

  https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/11432
  https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/pull/3047
  https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/1290
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Re:Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Pate... by dankohn1 on Sunday July 16, 2017 @03:19AM (#14780955)
gRPC relicensed to Apache-2.0 as part of joining CNCF. We explain the reasoning here: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2017/02/01/cncf-recommends-aslv2/

(I'm the executive director of CNCF and wrote the blog post. )

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