Re:Explaining React's license
by mcbits on Saturday August 19, 2017 @12:34AM
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My reading must be off, then. Is "under any Necessary Claims" the magic phrase?
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Re:Explaining React's license
by antoncohen on Saturday August 19, 2017 @12:42AM
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Yeah, it is defined at the bottom of the file:
> A "Necessary Claim" is a claim of a patent owned by Facebook that is necessarily infringed by the Software standing alone.
So when they say "license under any Necessary Claims" they are granting a patent license, the copyright license in the LICENSE file is separate.
The FAQ link provided by silentstreet makes it very clear:
> Does termination of the additional patent grant in the Facebook BSD+Patents license cause the copyright license to also terminate? > > No.