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Re:Explaining React's license by rhizome on Friday August 18, 2017 @10:01PM (#15051207)
The way I read it, ASF denied FB's BSD+Patents license in a mysterious bureaucratic decision that will cause a lot of pain for companies that use React, while FB's decision to create the BSD+Patents license was an altruistic move designed to benefit the software ecosystem and reduce their patent litigation overhead.

I believe FB is at the "pounding on the table" stage.

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Re:Explaining React's license by gstein67 on Saturday August 19, 2017 @12:12AM (#15051627)
The ASF does not want downstream users to be caught by more restrictions than those of the ALv2. The BSD+Patents licensing imposes more restrictions; thus, Apache projects cannot depend upon software under that license.

This is pretty clear, and the ASF has been operating under this "no more restrictive than the Apache license" since its origin.

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Re:Explaining React's license by rhizome on Saturday August 19, 2017 @01:18PM (#15054467)
I know, I was satirizing the tone of FB's post, where ASF are weird meanies and FB is just trying to give everybody sunshine and lollipops.
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