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Re:Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Pate... by HelloNurse on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @06:28AM (#14795492)
The license of an open source implementation is granted by the authors and allows you to make copies and derivative works, while a patent grant comes from the patent holder and allows you to actually use the software. They are two completely independent things.
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