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Re:Explaining React's license by amluto on Friday August 18, 2017 @11:39PM (#15051515)
There's a school of thought that the BSD permission to "use" the software implies a patent grant. As an extension of this school of thought, React's PATENTS file could be seen at modifying that grant.
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Re:Explaining React's license by gstein67 on Saturday August 19, 2017 @12:18AM (#15051642)
Right. This is the notion that BSD provides an "implicit" patent grant. Legal scholars are debating it, and there is no court precedent. ... but it is likely a more permissive grant than the explicit grant provided by BSD+PATENTS.
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Re:Explaining React's license by chrisco255 on Saturday August 19, 2017 @03:26AM (#15052164)
Has this never been tested in court in all the years the BSD license has been around (since 1988)?
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