Re:Explaining React's license
by carussell on Friday August 18, 2017 @11:09PM
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See my remark about impossible audits. Patent trolls are almost definitely relying on FOSS whether they're in the business of creating software or not.
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If I were a patent troll, I would get a Windows computer with a slightly old version of Microsoft Office and nothing else on it.
Even if the entire FOSS community decided to adopt a patent termination clause right now, it cannot retroactively apply to whatever fragments of FOSS code that has found its way into proprietary products so far. So I'm safe as long I don't install any new software until I'm done trollin'.
Your idea would make sense If all the FOSS that was ever written came with a patent termination clause. But that's not the world we live in.