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Re:Explaining React's license by chrisco255 on Saturday August 19, 2017 @03:20AM (#15052150)
The problem is that your MIT licensed open source library is not guaranteed to not be in violation of any software patents that may exist in the wild. If Company A publishes an open source library that happens to violate Company B's patents...then Company A's MIT license is not going to protect you against Company B's patent.
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Re:Explaining React's license by slavik81 on Saturday August 19, 2017 @04:09AM (#15052296)
Nor would Facebook's patent grant protect you if React were found to violate someone else's patents. That sort of scenario is no different for either licence.
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