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

Re:Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Pate... by chrisco255 on Sunday July 16, 2017 @06:58AM (#14781482)

The point is those other libraries could be in violation of any patents that Facebook may or may not have with regards to React. Perhaps they have a patent on virtual DOM? That would mean your usage of Inferno, Preact, Vue, or Angular 2+ would violate the patent.

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Re:Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Pate... by mlsarecmg on Sunday July 16, 2017 @07:28AM (#14781557)

That would frankly be impossible. All JSX boils down to is h(name, properties, children) and that is literally it. Each reconciler is different, uses another v-dom, etc. If you wanted to patent react, you patent the mere use of functions. And not just that there are about 20 years of fair use of similar principles, even for jsx in particular which evolved from mozillas e4x and otherwise keeps to basic xml markup and mustaches.

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Re:Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Pate... by chrisco255 on Sunday July 16, 2017 @08:31AM (#14781717)

I would like to think it's impossible. I just have seen crazier things patented before...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click

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Re:Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Pate... by developit on Sunday July 16, 2017 @11:14AM (#14782308)

Also impossible because JSX is independent of React. The specification is only subject to a standard Copyright and is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

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