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Re:Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Pate... by cyphar on Sunday July 16, 2017 @05:00AM (#14781196)
That's how Apache 2.0 and GPLv3 treat patents. The language in the React license is not symmetric like the above licenses and thus doesn't feel like it's a "screw you" to patents. Not to mention that Facebook is very patent-heavy and it doesn't feel like they're anti-patent in any meaningful way.
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Re:Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Pate... by thanksgiving on Sunday July 16, 2017 @06:45AM (#14781441)
I'd be more sympathetic to Facebook if they declared they would never use patents to sue someone and they'd only use their patents "defensively". Of course, they'd never do such a thing even though such a statement has zero weight.
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