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Re:Explaining React's license by hajile on Saturday August 19, 2017 @12:12AM (#15051624)
They have implicit patent grants while Facebook's does not.

http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Implicit_patent_licence

Re:Explaining React's license by antoncohen on Saturday August 19, 2017 @12:23AM (#15051659)
I don't see how that changes anything. If you sue Facebook you lose the explicit patent grant, but you are still left with a BSD license that allows "redistribution and use in source and binary forms", so you still have the implicit patent grant.
Re:Explaining React's license by rockdoe on Saturday August 19, 2017 @05:04AM (#15052446)
This doesn't work if there's an explicit grant. You can't pretend the PATENTS file isn't there.