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Re:Explaining React's license by jnbiche on Friday August 18, 2017 @09:55PM (#15051179)
Wow, that is pretty disingenuous. Clearly, BSD+Patents places some extra conditions on the BSD license, you don't have to be a lawyer to understand that. I mean, several people have provided the legal reasons elsewhere on this thread, but even the name "BSD PLUS Patents" should be a tip-off.
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Re:Explaining React's license by votepaunchy on Friday August 18, 2017 @11:05PM (#15051431)
No, its not at all disingenuous. Facebook could have written the "Additional Grant of Patent Rights" (note: additional) to also terminate the copyright grant under the BSD license. But they did not: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS
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Re:Explaining React's license by nopzor on Saturday August 19, 2017 @12:24AM (#15051660)
Then it wouldn't be, by definition, a normal bsd license.
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